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CORRESPONDENCE,  ORDERS,  Ere 


MAJOR-GENERAL  DAVID  HUNTER, 


MAJOR-GENERAL  .1.  G.  FOSTER, 


BRIGADIER  GENERAL  HENRY  M.  NAGLEE, 


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CORRESPONDENCE,  ORDERS,  Etc. 


BETWEEN 


MAJOR-GENERAL  DAVID  HUNTER, 


MAJOR-GENERAL  J.  G.  FOSTER, 


BRIGADIER-GENERAL  HENRY  M.  NAGLEE, 


AND    OTHERS. 


FEBRUAEY    AND    IVCA-IiCII,  1863. 


PHILADELPHIA: 

J.  B.  LIPPINCOTT    &    CO., 

Nos.  715  and  717  Market  St. 
18  63. 


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CORRESPONDENCE,  Etc. 


Headquarters  18th  Army  Corps, 
Flag  Ship  "John  Farron,"  Feb.  7th,  1863. 

General  Order \ 
No.  i 

During  the  temporary  absence  of  General  Foster,  the 
detachment  of  the  18th  Army  Corps,  in  this  department, 
will  be  under  command  of  Brigadier- General  Naglee. 

As  this  detachment  is  only  intended  to  co-operate  with  the 
troops  of  this  department,  the  command  will  be  considered 
distinct.  The  troops  will  be  immediately  landed  on  St. 
Helena  Island,  and  the  transports  will  be  thoroughly  cleansed 
and  supplied  afresh  with  subsistence  stores,  coal,  and  water, 
for  ten  (10)  days. 

Requisition  will  be  made  on  the  quartermaster's  depart- 
ment for  surf-boats  and  scows,  which  will  be  put  in  order  for 
the  disembarkation  of  the  troops. 

By  command  of  Maj.-Gen.  Foster. 

(Signed)  JOHN  F.  ANDERSON, 

Major  and  A.  A.  A.  Gr. 


LETTER  FROM  GEN.  NAGLEE  TO  GEN.  HUNTER. 

Headquarters  Detachment  18th  Corps, 
Harbor  of  Port  Royal,  Feb.  11th,  1863. 

Colonel  :  I  would  respectfully  submit  the  following  state- 
ment:— 

General  Foster,  prior  to  his  departure,  ordered  "that  dur- 

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ing  his  temporary  absence,  his  detachment  should  be  kept 
distinct,"  and  detached  from  those  of  the  tenth  department, 
and  stated  that  he  had  come  to  South  Carolina  for  an  especial 
purpose,  and  that  as  soon  as  that  was  accomplished,  if  not 
before,  it  would  return  to  his  department;  that  his  absence, 
caused  by  the  necessary  delay  of  the  navy,  would  be  short, 
and  that  it  was  expressly  understood  between  "General  Hun- 
ter and  himself,  that  the  immediate  command  of  the  force 
to  operate  in  the  present  expedition  was  to  be  in  his  hands 
in  accordance  with  the  wish  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  Mr. 
Stanton." 

You  are  probably  aware  that  the  expedition  was  intended 
to  go  to  Wilmington,  in  General  Foster's  department,  and 
that  after  it  was  prepared  to  move,  the  Monitor  sunk,  and  it 
was  found  the  other  iron-clad  vessels  could  not  cross  the  bar, 
and  that  the  Government,*  in  order  not  to  lose  the  prepara- 
tions made,  ordered  General  Foster  to  co-operate  in  the  con- 
templated attack  upon  Charleston. 

This  purpose  was  unknown  to  any  of  the  command,  until 
after  the  sailing  of  the  vessels ;  on  the  contrary,  they  believed 
Wilmington  to  be  the  object  of  the  movement,  and  were 
assured  that  they  would  return  to  North  Carolina. 

General  Foster  arrived  at  Hilton  Head  on  the  2d  of  Feb- 
ruary, at  9  A.M.,  and  remained  until  the  10th  at  8  a.m.,  dur- 
ing which  time  General  Hunter  did  not,  so  far  as  I  am  able 
to  learn,  exercise  any  command  over  General  Foster  or  any 
of  his  troops. 

Three  hours  after  the  departure  of  General  Foster,  an 
aid-de-camp  of  General  Hunter  delivered  communications, 
of  which  copies  are  herewith  attached,  (see  Appendix,  marked 
Nos.  1  and  2,)  both  dated  before  the  departure  of  General 
Foster,  but  addressed  to  me:  the  one  requesting  a  return  of 
the  forces  of  General  Foster's  command  as  necessary  to  make 
up  that  of  the  10th  Corps,  which  request  had  also  been  made 
of  General  Ferry ;  the  other  indicating  General  Hunter's 
intention  to  review  the  troops  of  General  Foster  at  12  m.  on 
the  11th ;  and  at  the  same  time  there  was  delivered  to  me  the 


series  of  orders  from  the  Headquarters  of  the  Department  of 
the  South. 

At  3  p.m.  General  Potter,  chief  of  General  Foster's  staff, 
and  myself,  called  upon  General  Hunter  and  explained  the 
unfortunate  position  in  which  we  were  placed  by  the  discovery 
that  a  full  understanding  did  not  exist  between  Generals 
Hunter  and  Foster,  as  supposed  by  the  latter  at  the  time  of 
his  departure. 

At  5*45  p.m.  an  aid  delivered  your  request,  that  I  should 
name  a  colonel  of  my  command  to  he  detailed  by  General 
Hunter  on  a  military  commission,  and  was  instructed  to  await 
the  answer.  (See  Appendix,  Nos.  3  and  4.) 

At  7'40  p.m.  a  request  was  received  that  I  should  furnish 
copies  of  certain  orders  of  General  Foster,  and  at  the  same 
time  there  was  transmitted  a  copy  and  original  communica- 
tion of  General  Saxon,  with  a  request  that  certain  criminals 
should  be  punished.  (See  Appendix,  Nos.. 5  and  6.) 

I  cannot  but  express  a  regret  that  some  one  of  these  re- 
quests had  not  been  made  of  General  Foster,  or  some  other 
means  adopted,  during  the  eight  days  of  General  Foster's 
stay,  by  which  the  subject-matter  at  issue  might  have  been 
determined,  and  thus  have  saved  me  the  unpleasant  duty  of 
upholding,  in  his  temporary  absence,  the  position  assumed  by 
General  Foster,  and  expected  by  the  officers  and  soldiers  of 
the  18  th  Army  Corps,  who  may  find  themselves  transferred 
to  another  department  in  direct  opposition  to  the  representa- 
tions made  to  them  by  their  favorite  commander,  that  the 
absence  from  their  old  comrades  in  arms  would  be  but  a  tem- 
porary one. 

I  inclose  herewith  the  orders,  returns,  and  other  informa- 
tion requested  by  you. 

An  unqualified  compliance  with  your  several  requests 
would  be  soon  considered  a  direct  acknowledgment  that  I 
considered  the  command  of  General  Foster  merged  into  that 
of  General  Hunter,  which  I  respectfully  decline  to  do.  But 
on  the  contrary,  in  order  to  sustain  the  position  in  which  I 
am  placed,  disclaiming  any  disrespect  to  Major-General  Hun- 


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ter,  my  duty  compels  me  to  protest,  that  the  course  indicated 
by  General  Hunter  will  cause  a  direct  failure  on  my  part  to 
carry  out  the  orders  of  my  immediate  superior  officer,  indi- 
cated by  him,  and  of  those  confidentially  made  to  me,  and 
intended  to  be  used  only  under  contingencies  which  have  not 
as  yet  transpired. 

I  protest  that  we  came  here  with  the  full  assurance  of 
General  Foster  that  he  was  sent  by  the  Secretary  of  "War 
and  General  Halleck  to  command  the  troops  brought  by  him, 
and  that  the  same  assurance  has  been  repeated  by  him  since 
his  conference  with  General  Hunter,  and  that  during  his  stay 
I  have  been  informed  that  no  communication  has  been  made 
to  him  to  show  the  intention  of  General  Hunter  to  assume  the 
command. 

I  protest,  for  the  reason  that,  in  going  away  to  procure 
material  of  a  character  which  would  render  the  operations 
intended  more  complete  and  certain,  General  Foster  left  his 
Chief  of  Staff,  his  Chief  of  Artillery,  his  Medical  Director, 
his  Quartermaster,  his  Ordnance  Officer,  Engineer,  and  several 
of  his  Aids-de-Camp,  all  of  the  18th  Army  Corps  of  the  De- 
partment of  North  Carolina,  which  it  would  seem  cannot  well 
be  merged  in  another  department. 

I  protest  that  no  mere  act  of  mine  in  responding  to  the 
various  requests  of  General  Hunter  shall  be  hereafter  used 
as  evidence  of  a  surrender  of  my  command  to  General  Hun- 
ter, in  the  absence  of  a  direct  order  from  General  Hunter 
assuming  the  command. 

I  would  again  respectfully  request  that  General  Hunter 
will  relieve  me  of  further  responsibility  and  embarrassment, 
by  formally  and  clearly  announcing  his  intention  to  assume 
the  command  of  the  troops  brought  to  South  Carolina  by 
General  Foster. 

Very  respectfully,  etc., 
(Signed)  HENRY  M.  NAGLEE, 

Brigadier-  Gf-eneraL 
Lieut.-Col.  Chas.  G.  Halpine, 

A.  A.  a.  10th  Corps. 


P.  S.  Since  writing  the  above,  General  Hunter's  Order  No. 
13,  assuming  command  of  the  reinforcements  recently  arrived 
from  North  Carolina,  has  been  received. 

Yielding  all  obedience  to  the  order,  I  still  consider  it  mv 
duty  respectfully  to  file  the  above  protest,  that  the  same  may 
be  of  record. 

Very  respectfully,  etc., 
(Signed)  HENRY  M.  NAGLEE, 

Brigadier-  General. 


Headquarters  Department  of  the  South. 
Hilton  Head,  Port  Royal,  S.  C,  Feb.  11th,  1863. 

General  Order") 
No.  13.        i" 

The  undersigned  hereby  assumes  command  of  the  rein- 
forcements recently  arrived  in  this  department  from  North 
Carolina,  such  troops  on  the  arrival  here  having  become  a 
portion  of  the  10th  Army  Corps. 

Brigadier-Generals  Henry  M.  Naglee  and  Orris  S.  Ferry. 
commanding  divisions,  will  cause  the  various  staff  officers  of 
their  commands  to  report  and  make  due  reports  and  returns 
to  these  headquarters.  They  will  also  cause  the  chief  quar- 
termasters of  their  divisions  to  turn  over  all  marine  trans- 
portation brought  down  with  them,  to  Lieutenant-Colonel 
J.  J.  Elwell,  Chief  Quartermaster  of  this  department.  (See 
Appendix,  No.  7.) 

The  divisions  commanded  by  Brigadier-Generals  Henry 
M.  Naglee  and  Orris  S.  Ferry  will  remain  intact  as  at  pres- 
ent organized;  General  Naglee,  as  senior  officer,  assuming 
command  of  all  the  U.  S.  forces  on  St.  Helena  Island,  with 
the  exception  of  those  stationed  at  Bay  Point,  who  will  con- 
tinue to  report  to  Post  Headquarters,  Hilton  Head  Island, 
until  further  orders. 

(Signed)  D.  HUNTER, 

Maj.-Gren.  Commanding. 


GEN.  HUNTER  TO  GEN.  NAGLEE. 

Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  Feb.  12th,  1863. 

Brig.-Gen.  Henry  M.  Naglee, 
Commanding  U.  S.  Forces, 

St.  Selena  Island,  S.  C. 

General  :  I  have  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  your  com- 
munication of  yesterday's  date,  in  which  you  protest  against 
the  forces  under  your  command  to  be  considered  a  portion  of 
the  troops  of  this  department  and  army  corps,  and  in  which 
you  further  speak  of  possessing  confidential  orders,  only  to  be 
used  in  a  certain  contingency,  which  contingency  (you  say) 
has  not  yet  arisen.  Your  letter  further  announcing  that  the 
troops  recently  sent  under  orders  of  the  Government  to 
reinforce  this  department,  has  been  promised,  (you  do  not 
specify  particularly  by  whom,)  a  speedy  return  to  North- 
Carolina,  and  that  they  are  specially  anxious  to  serve  under 
a  favorite  general. 

It  is  high  time  that  the  imputation  against  American  troops, 
that  they  are  only  willing  to  serve  under  particular  generals 
of  their  own  choice,  and  not  those  assigned  to  their  command 
by  Government,  should  be  set  at  rest.  In  two  prominent 
instances  it  was  clamorously  raised,  with  threats  of  a  general 
mutiny,  etc.,  etc.  by  a  few  interested  parties,  but  on  the  mat- 
ters being  put  to  the  test  of  experiment,  the  prompt  unques- 
tioning and  hearty  fidelity  of  the  troops  showed  how  little 
foundation  there  had  been  for  the  charges  prejudicial  to  their 
loyalty.  I  am  far  from  wishing  to  suggest  that,  in  the  man- 
ner of  your  protest  on  this  point,  there  has  been  any  spirit  of 
insubordination  manifested ;  but  as  the  mere  statement  of  the 
point  was  utterly  irrelevant  to  the  discussion  of  a  technical 
question  of  army  lawTs,  usages,  and  discipline,  I  have  given  it 
this  notice. 

Considering   it   highly   improper    and    destructive   of  all 
military  discipline  that  subordinate  officers    should   be  fur- 


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nished  with  confidential  or  secret  instructions  by  intermediate 
commanders,  such  instructions  being  withheld  from  the  gen- 
eral commanding-in-chief,  and  only  to  be  used  by  the  sub- 
ordinate general  in  the  event  of  certain  contingencies,  I 
hereby  call  upon  and  order  you  to  furnish  to  these  head- 
quarters a  certified  copy  or  report  of  all  the  secret  instruc- 
tions, verbal  or  written,  received  by  you  from  Major-General 
Foster,  or  from  any  other  person,  and  dwelt  upon  in  your 
protest. 

Knowing  that  General  Foster  had  not  originally  been 
ordered  to  accompany  the  reinforcements  brought  down  by 
you,  but  had  come  here  on  my  invitation,  as  an  officer  well 
acquainted  with  Charleston  harbor,  and  therefore  likely  to  be 
of  much  service,  by  his  suggestions,  and  the  interest  he  would 
feel  in  the  operations,  I  confess  that  I  regarded  him  rather  as 
a  guest  than  as  a  subordinate,  and,  from  a  spirit  of  courtesy, 
forbore  as  much  as  possible  from  giving  any  orders  that 
would  look  like  a  too  hasty  assumption  of  command.  I  regret 
exceedingly  to  find  that  this  courtesy  should  have  been  so 
strangely  and  wholly  misconstrued  as  to  be  considered  a 
license  for  insubordination.  All  my  "requests,"  on  which 
you  appear  to  lay  stress,  were  regarded  by  me  as  orders,  to 
be  promptly  obeyed.  The  word  "request"  being  frequently 
substituted  for  "order"  by  army  usage  in  the  case  of  superior 
officers.  Thus  when  I  requested  you  to  land  your  troops, 
the  first  day  of  your  arrival,  on  St.  Helena  Island,  it  was  by 
me  regarded  as  an  order,  and  should  most  certainly  been 
adhered  to  and  enforced,  had  you  then  given  me  the  least 
reason  to  infer  that  you  doubted  my  competency  to  issue 
orders  to  your  command.  As  you  did  not  raise  the  question, 
however,  but  represented  merely  that  General  Foster  was 
following  you,  and  might  be  expected  any  moment,  I  waived 
the  request  or  order  for  the  time  being,  and  consented  that 
the  troops  should  remain  on  board  the  transports  until  further 
advised. 

As  to  the  further  point  made  by  you,  that  the  "request" 
to  be  furnished  with  a  return  of  your  command  was  not  re- 


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ceived  by  you  until  three  hours  after  General  Foster's  de- 
parture for  the  North,  the  context  evidently  implying  your 
assumption  that  the  question  of  command  was  purposely  held 
in  abeyance  by  me  during  General  Foster's  presence  here, 
there  are  three  abundant  answers,  each  sufficient  to  do  away 
with  your  objections. 

1st.  That  no  possibility  of  any  such  controversy  ever  en- 
tered my  mind,  and  that  I  was  daily  in  expectation  of  receiv- 
ing, without  order,  the  reports  and  returns  prescribed  by 
Army  Regulations,  and  that,  with  my  then  view  of  General 
Foster's  position  as  an  honored  visitor  of  this  department 
and  army  corps,  I  much  preferred,  if  possible,  that  the  re- 
turns should  be  made,  and  the  acknowledgment  of  the  trans- 
fer of  command  be  given  of  his  own  motion. 

2d.  That  I  did  not  know  General  Foster  was  going  to 
leave  the  department,  it  being  reported  to  me  that  he  was 
about  to  visit  Stono  Inlet  on  a  reconnoissance,  from  which  he 
might  be  expected  back  in  the  course  of  a  couple  of  days. 
The  request  or  order,  moreover,  was  written  on  the  9th,  and 
was  only  not  delivered  to  you  on  that  afternoon  or  evening, 
by  Captain  Thompson,  one  of  my  aids,  because  he  could  not 
find  you  in  your  division  encampment,  you  not  yet  having 
left  your  headquarters  on  board  the  transport. 

3d,  and  lastly.  You  did  not  receive  this  request  or  order 
until  the  9th  inst.,  partly  for  the  reasons  stated  in  the  first  of 
these  answering  paragraphs,  and  also  because  my  department 
return  called  for  by  general  orders  of  the  War  Department 
was  not  required  to  be  made  up  until  the  10th  inst.  Finding 
on  the  9th  that  your  report  was  necessary,  and  not  forthcom- 
ing, I  then  directed  Colonel  Halpine,  my  assistant  adjutant- 
general,  to  address  you  on  the  subject,  telling  him  to  state,  in 
connection  with  my  request  or  order,  the  cause  which  made  it 
necessary. 

As  to  your  not  receiving  any  other  documents  of  a  nature 
to  suggest  that  I  regarded  myself  as  in  command  until  the 
10th  inst.,  no  explanation  can  be  seriously  asked.  For  three 
of  the  eight  days  referred  to,  I  was  absent  at  Fort  Pulaski, 


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and  having  no  orders  or  correspondence  of  any  pressing  mo- 
ment to  send  you,  I  was  unwilling  that  you  should  be  troubled 
until  your  command  had  been  disembarked  and  put  in  order. 

In  conclusion,  general,  let  me  add  that  the  tone  of  your 
letter  is  so  far  removed  from  the  tenor  of  your  conversation 
upon  these  points,  that  I  cannot  but  regard  it  as  suggested  to 
you  by  extraneous  influences.  You  have  received  a  regular 
military  education,  and  I  believe  you  to  be  so  good  a  soldier 
that  you  cannot  but  agree  with  me  in  the  views  expressed  in 
this  letter.  I  shall  expect,  in  the  operations  about  to  be  taken 
in  this  department,  your  hearty  and  best  co-operation ;  and 
have  the  honor  to  be, 

Very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 
(Signed)  D.  HUNTER, 

Major-  General . 


GEN.  NAGLEE  TO  GEN.  HUNTER. 

Headquarters  Detachment  10th  Corps, 
St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C,  Feb.  13th. 

Colonel:  I  would  respectfully  acknowledge  the  receipt  of 
the  communication  of  General  Hunter  of  the  12th  inst. 

I  regret  very  much  that  General  Hunter  indicates  an  im- 
propriety of  expression  not  warranted  by  my  communication. 
I  did  not  assert  "  that  the  troops  were  specially  anxious  to 
serve  under  a  favorite  general,"  but  that  they  had  been  pro- 
mised, from  representations  made  to  them  by  their  favorite 
commander,  that  the  absence  from  their  old  comrades  in  arms 
would  be  but  a  temporary  one. 

I  am  surprised  that  General  Hunter  should  consider  it 
a  great  impropriety  in  American  troops,  that  they  should 
have  favor  and  affection  for  a  brave  and  gallant  officer  with 
whom  they  have  long  served;  and  am  yet  to  learn  that  it  is 
any  indication  of  insubordination,  or  that  they  would  fight  the 
less  for  their  country  when  led  by  one  that  was  their  favorite, 


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and  in  whom  they  had  great  confidence.  On  the  contrary, 
as  you  admit  in  the  instances  referred  to  by  you,  it  was  fully 
demonstrated  that  it  did  not  indicate  any  insubordination. 
The  just  discrimination  and  intelligence  of  the  American 
citizen  has  always  been  admitted,  and  I  cannot  admit  that 
they  lose  this  character  by  becoming  "American  troops." 

There  is  no  difference  between  General  Hunter  and  myself 
in  regard  to  the  form  of  an  order,  or  to  his  authority  to  as- 
sume the  command ;  but  in  the  manner  in  which  he  made 
known  his  intentions  to  assume  the  command  of  General 
Foster's  forces :  and,  with  due  respect,  I  still  believe  that  the 
requests  or  orders  referred  to,  should  have  been  preceded  by 
a  notification  to  the  whole  command  of  over  ten  thousand 
persons,  that  a  change  of  so  important  a  character  had  been 
determined  upon. 

I  regret  that  General  Hunter  had  not  suspended  his  opin- 
ion in  regard  to  certain  confidential,  not  "secret  instructions," 
until  he  should  have  had  an  opportunity  to  read  them ;  at 
all  events,  the  impropriety  of  conduct  charged  against  Gen- 
eral Foster  in  this  regard,  is  a  subject  for  which  he  alone  is 
responsible.  In  reviewing  the  whole  subject,  I  can  find  no 
just  grounds  for  the  intimations  of  insubordination  made  by 
General  Hunter,  and  feel  that  my  position,  in  the  absence  of 
General  Foster,  required  a  respectful  and  formal  protest. 

In  order  that  there  shall  be  no  misapprehension,  I  would 
here  insert  that  Generals  Hunter  and  Foster  went  together 
to  Pulaski ;  that  General  Foster  made  a  reconnoissance  to 
Stono;  that  we  returned,  and  were  at  General  Hunter's  head- 
quarters during  his  absence  on  the  P.M.  of  the  9th  inst.,  and 
that  General  Foster  left  between  8  and  11  a.m.  of  the  10th 
of  February,  stating,  in  written  orders,  and  in  the  communica- 
tion hereunto  attached,  that  he  should  return  in  a  short  time. 
On  the  10th  General  Hunter  assumed  command  of  the  forces 
brought  by  General  Foster  to  South  Carolina,  and  ordered 
that  his  marine  transportation  should  be  turned  over  to  his 
(General  Hunter's)  department. 

I  might  answer  many  if  not  all  the  points  raised  by  Gen- 


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eral  Hunter,  but  I  am  reminded  that  in  a  controversy  be- 
tween a  superior  and  his  junior  officer,  the  advantages  are  all 
on  one  side ;  besides,  such  a  controversy  could  lead  to  no  better 
understanding  between  us.  Our  country  requires  our  best, 
most  harmonious,  united  efforts,  and  in  the  common  cause  to 
sink  all  personal  considerations. 

Yery  respectfully,  etc., 
(Signed)  HENRY  M.  NAGLEE, 

Brig.-G-en.  Commanding. 
Lieut.-Col.  Chas.  G.  Halpine, 

A.  A.  a.  lUth  Corps. 


CONFIDENTIAL  LETTER  OF  GEN.  FOSTER  TO  GEN.  NAGLEE. 

Hilton  Head,  South  Carolina, 
Feb.  9th,  1863. 

General  Naglee,  Present. 

General  :  In  the  orders  that  I  gave  you  on  the  7th  inst., 
(expecting  to  sail  on  the  following  day,)  I  mentioned  the  cir- 
cumstance of  keeping  the  command  distinct. 

This  is  important,  because  it  may  be  necessary,  in  the  emer- 
gency of  an  attact  on  Newbern,  N.  C,  to  recall  the  whole 
force  to  North  Carolina,  at  the  shortest  notice.  I  now  write 
this  note  to  inform  you,  in  confidence,  that  it  is  understood 
by  General  Hunter  and  myself,  that  the  immediate  command 
of  the  whole  force  to  operate  in  the  present  expedition  is  to 
be  in  my  hands. 

This  is  also  the  wish  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  Mr.  Stanton. 
Of  course,  in  my  absence,  after  the  opening  of  the  operations, 
you  will  be  second  in  command  only  to  myself  of  the  operating 
force. 

In  haste,  very  respectfully  and  truly, 

(Signed)  J.  G.  FOSTER, 

Maj.  -G-en.  Comman  ding. 


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P.  S.  If  the  navy  happen  to  be  ready  to  move  before  I  re- 
turn, you  will  have  all  the  necessary  preparations  made,  and 
the  troops  of  the  corps  embarked.  And  if  the  navy  moves, 
move  your  command  in  conjunction  with  them,  and  operate 
as  agreed  upon  verbally. 

Yours,  etc., 

(Signed)  J.  G.  FOSTER, 

Major-  General. 


Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  Port  Rotal,  S.  C,  Feb.  16th,  1863. 

Special  Orders") 
No.  87.        ) 

In  view  of  future  operations,  Brigadier-General  Henry  M. 
Naglee,  commanding  U.  S.  forces,  St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C, 
will  cause  the  division  commanded  by  Brigadier- General 
0.  S.  Ferry  to  be  immediately  embarked  and  transported  to 
Danfuskie  Island,  where  they  will  establish  a  camp;  General 
0.  S.  Ferry  becoming  Post  Commander  of  Danfuskie  Island, 
and  hereafter  reporting  direct  to  these  headquarters. 

II.  The  chief  quartermaster,  Department  of  the  South, 
will  see  that  the  necessary  transportation  for  the  execution  of 
this  order  is  supplied  without  delay. 

By  command  of  Maj.-Gen.  Hunter. 

CHAS.  G.  HALPINE, 

Asst.  Adj. -Gen.  10th  Army  Corps. 
Brig.-Gen.  Naglee, 

C.  C.  St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C. 


GEN.  NAGLEE  TO  GEN.  HUNTER. 

Headquarters  Detachment  10th  Corps, 
St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C,  Feb.  18th,  1863. 

Colonel  :  I  believe  I  have  complied  with  all  of  the  calls 
for  information  you  have  been  pleased  to  make;  if  there  is 


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anything  overlooked,  please  suggest  it  at  once,  that  there 
may  he  no  misunderstanding. 

Please  say  to  the  general  that  my  division  may  he  reviewed 
hy  him  at  any  hour;  that  of  General  Ferry  may  require  some 
preparation. 

Very  respectfully,  etc., 
(Signed)  HENRY  M.  NAGLEE, 

Brig. -Gen.  Commanding. 
Lieut.-Col.  Chas.  G.  Halpine, 

A.  A.  General. 

Note. — The  above  was  delivered  by  me  to  Colonel  Halpine,  who  re- 
quested me  to  inform  General  Naglee,  that  all  of  the  information  that 
General  Hunter  had  desired,  had  been  most  promptly  furnished,  and  in 
the  most  satisfactory  manner  by  General  Naglee. 

GEORGE  H.  JOHNSTON, 

St.  Helena  Island,  Feb.  19th,  1863.  A.  A.  Gen. 


GEN.  HALLECK  TO  GEN.  HUNTER. 

Headquarters  of  the  Army, 
Washington,  D.C.,  Feb.  15th,  1863. 

Major-General  Hunter, 

Commanding  Department  of  the  South. 

General:  Major-General  J.  G.  Foster  has  just  received 
Brigadier-General  Naglee's  protest  to  you  on  the  11th  instant, 
against  the  consolidation  of  the  detachment  of  the  18th  Army 
Corps,  in  your  department,  with  the  10th  Corps ;  which  pro- 
test and  accompanying  papers  have  been  submitted  to  the 
Secretary  of  War. 

There  seems  to  be  a  misunderstanding  in  this  matter  on 
both  sides. 

General  Foster  and  his  command,  while  serving  in  your 
department,  was  to  be  subject  to  your  general  orders  and 
direction;  but  that  command  was  to  form  no  part  of  the  10th 
Army  Corps.  It  was  organized  as  the  18th  Army  Corps  by 
the  President,  and  no  subordinate  authority  could  change  its 


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organization.  You  will  therefore  rescind  so  much  of  your 
orders  as  consolidates  it  with  the  10th  Corps.  But  while  this 
command  remains  as  a  distinct  organization,  with  its  own  offi- 
cers, as  assigned  by  its  proper  chief,  the  command  itself,  so 
long  as  it  remains  in  your  department,  will  be  subject  to  your 
orders.  The  transportation  which  belongs  to  the  18th  Army 
Corps  will  so  continue.  It  will,  of  course,  be  used  for  any 
temporary  purposes  you  may  direct;  but  will  afterward  be 
restored  to  the  North  Carolina  forces,  to  which  it  properly 
belongs.  In  fine,  general,  these  forces  are  merely  assigned 
for  temporary  duty  under  your  orders,  and  their  organiza- 
tion, both  in  men  and  material,  will  be  retained,  so  that  the 
corps  can  at  any  time  be  returned  entire  (except  casualties) 
to  its  proper  department. 

General  Foster  will,  as  you  requested,  return  immediately 
to  South  Carolina,  to  take  the  direct  charge  of  the  expedition, 
(under  your  direction,)  and  will  remain  so  long  as  he  may 
deem  it  safe  to  be  absent  from  his  own  department. 

This  letter  has  been   submitted  to  the  Secretary  of  War 
and  to  the  President,  and  is  approved  by  them. 
Very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 
(Signed)  H.  W.  HALLECK, 

Cfeneral-in-  Chief. 
(Official  Copy.) 
(Signed)  J.  C.  Keehon, 

Asst.  Adj.-G-eneral. 
For  General  Foster. 


GEN.  HALLECK  TO  GEN.  HUNTER. 

Headquarters  of  the  Army, 
Washington,  D.  C,  Feb.  16th,  1863. 

Maj.-Gen.  Hunter. 

Your  letter  of  the  11th,  with  inclosures,  are  just  received. 
I  received  yesterday  a  copy  of  your  order,  merging  the  de- 


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tachment  of  the  18th  Army  Corps  with  the  10th,  and  also  a 
copy  of  General  Naglee's  protest.  These  papers  were  im- 
mediately submitted  to  the  Secretary  of  War  and  the  Presi- 
dent, and  I  wrote  to  you  as  directed  by  them.  Your  letters 
of  the  11th  are  also  submitted,  and  no  reason  is  seen  for 
changing  the  instructions  then  given,  nor  is  anything  per- 
ceived in  General  Foster's  orders  that  conflict  with  those 
instructions,  or  with  the  verbal  understanding  with  you,  in 
the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  before  you  left  for  your 
present  command.  If  General  Foster,  or  any  part  of  the 
18th  Army  Corps,  while  in  your  department,  shall  attempt 
to  act  independently  of  your  authority,  and  in  violation  of 
proper  orders  from  you,  they  will  be  liable  to  censure  and 
punishment.  But  it  is  not  understood  that  General  Foster 
makes  any  such  claim;  on  the  contrary,  on  being  furnished 
with  a  copy  of  my  letter  to  you  of  yesterday,  he  expressed 
himself  entirely  satisfied,  as  he  considered  himself  and  his 
corps,  while  in  your  department,  subject  to  your  order. 

It  is  to  be  regretted,  general,  that  on  the  eve  of  important 
movements,  when  the  most  cordial  co-operation  of  all  the  offi- 
cers of  the  Government  is  imperatively  required,  anything 
should  be  permitted  to  occur  which  is  calculated  to  distract 
the  harmony  of  the  service. 

If  the  plans  of  the  Government  should  fail  to  be  carried 
out,  for  want  of  this  harmony,  those  who  have  engendered 
and  fostered  animosities  and  jealousies  will  incur  a  very 
serious  responsibility. 

General  Naglee's  protest  to  you  being  disapproved,  the 
Secretary  of  War  has  directed  that  he  be  relieved  from  duty 
in  your  department. 

Very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 
(Signed)  H.  W.  HALLECK, 

Greneral-in-  Chief. 
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GEN.  HALLECK  TO  GEN.  FOSTER. 

Headquarters  op  the  Army, 
Washington,  D.  C,  Feb.  16th,  1863. 

Ma j.- Gen.  J.  G.  Foster, 

Commanding,  etc. 

General:  Colonel  Townsend,  of  the  Adjutant- General's 
Department,  will  furnish  you  with  a  copy,  or  show  you  the 
original  of  my  letter,  of  this  date,  to  Major-General  Hunter. 
This,  with  my  letter  of  yesterday,  to  General  Hunter,  of 
which  you  have  a  copy,  will  furnish  you  with  the  view  of  the 
Government  in  regard  to  the  relation  between  yourself  and 
General  Hunter,  in  regard  to  your  command  in  South  Caro- 
lina. While  your  command  will  remain  a  distinct  corps 
organization,  not  to  be  merged  into  the  10th  Army  Corps, 
both  you  and  it  will  be  subject  to  General  Hunter's  orders, 
so  long  as  you  are  on  duty  in  his  department. 

As  the  course  pursued  by  General  Naglee  in  objecting  to 
furnish  his  superior  officer  with  proper  returns,  and  the  spirit 
of  his  protest  are  disapproved,  the  Secretary  of  War  directs 
that  you  relieve  him  from  further  duty  in  the  Department  of 
the  South ;  Colonel  Townsend  has  instructions  from  the  War 
Department,  to  relieve,  under  certain  contingencies,  other 
officers.  Harmony  of  action,  and  a  cordial  co-operation  of 
all  officers  in  the  contemplated  expedition,  are  absolutely 
essential  to  its  success.  Those  who  in  any  way  interfere 
with  this  harmony  will  be  dealt  with  as  they  deserve. 
Very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 
(Signed)  H.  W.  HALLECK, 

G-eneral-in-  Chief. 


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GEN.  FOSTEK  TO  GEN.  NAGLEE. 

Beaufort,  North  Carolina, 
February  20th,  1863. 

General  Naglee, 

ComoVg  Detachment  18iA  Army  Corps, 
Port  Royal,  South  Carolina. 

General:  I  received  jour  dispatches  by  the  hands  of  Col- 
onel Darr;  and  upon  their  presentation  to  General  Halleck, 
obtained  the  letter  to  General  Hunter  of  the  15th.  (See  copy.) 

This  was  approved  by  the  President  and  Secretary  of  War ; 
I  then  left  to  start  from  Baltimore  the  following  evening.  At 
the  time  of  starting,  Colonel  Townsend  joined  me,  with  the 
letter  to  me  of  the  16th,  General  Hunter's  dispatches  having 
arrived  since  I  left  Washington. 

This  letter  was  not  of  such  a  character  as  would  enable  me, 
with  proper  self-respect,  to  return  to  South  Carolina,  inas- 
much as  it  required  me  to  relieve  you. 

I  therefore  telegraphed  this  in  substance  to  General  Hal- 
leck, and  he  left  it  optional  with  me  to  return  or  not.  I  choose 
not  to  return. 

He  now  leaves  it  optional  with  Hunter  to  relieve  you  or 
not.  General  Hunter,  as  you  see  by  the  letters,  is  required' 
to  rescind  his  Order  No.  13,  and  the  detachment  of  the 
18th  Corps  is  to  remain  distinct. 

My  staff  will  return  with  Colonel  Townsend,  also  the 
"Spaulding"  and  "John  Farron." 

I  shall  operate  in  North  Carolina  in  two  weeks,  from  this 
time,  with  my  remaining  force. 

In  haste,  very  respectfully  and  truly  yours, 
(Signed)   *  J.  G.  FOSTER, 

Maj.-Gren..  Commanding  18th  Corps. 


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GEN.  NAGLEE  TO  LIEUT.-COL.  HALPINE,  A.  A.  G. 

Headquarters  Detachment  10th  Corps, 
St.  Helena  Island,  Feb.  25th,  1863. 

Colonel:  Colonel  Townsend,  A.  A.  G.  U.  S.  A.,  delivered 
to  me  on  the  22d  February  inst.,  copies  of  the  letters  from 
General  Halleck  to  General  Hunter,  dated  the  15th  and  16th 
inst.,  of  which  General  Hunter  was  kind  enough  to  show  me 
the  originals  last  evening.  In  that  of  the  16th,  General 
Halleck  says,  "General  Naglee's  protest  being  disapproved, 
the  Secretary  of  War  has  directed  that  he  be  relieved  from 
duty  in  your  (General  Hunter's)  department."  I  would  there- 
fore respectfully  request  that  General  Hunter  will  notify  me 
officially,  in  writing,  as  he  did  last  evening  verbally,  of  his 
determination  in  regard  to  the  above ;  and  at  the  same  time 
furnish  me  with  a  copy  of  the  telegram  to  Colonel  Townsend, 
that  I  may  have  a  full  record  of  the  communications  in  the 
premises,  so  far  as  I  am  connected  with  them. 
Very  respectfully,  etc., 
(Signed)  HENRY  M.  NAGLEE, 

Brig. -Gen.  Commanding. 
Lieut.-Col.  Halpine, 

A.  A.  a.  10th  Corps. 


GEN.  HALLECK  TO  GEN.  HUNTER,  BY  TELEGRAPH. 

Fort  Monroe,  Old  Point  Comfort,  Va., 
February  18th,  1863. 

Major-General  D.  Hunter, 

U.  S.  Vols.,  Com.  Dept.  of  S.  Carolina,  Hilton  Head,  S.  C. 

Sir  :  I  have  received  at  this  place  the  following  dispatches 
from  Major-General  Halleck : — 


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"  Headquarters  of  the  Army, 
"Washington,  February  18th,  1863. 

"Colonel  Townsend. 

"Communicate  the  following  to  Major-General  Hunter: — 
"Major-General  Foster  having  determined  not  to  return  to 
South  Carolina,  it  is  left  to  your  discretion  to  relieve  General 
Naglee,  or  to  retain  him  in  command  of  the  detachment  of  the 
18th  Army  Corps  in  your  department. 

"(Signed)  H.  W.  Halleck, 

"  General-in-Chief." 
Very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 
(Signed)  E.  D.  TOWNSEND, 

Asst.  Adjt.-G-en, 
(A  true  copy.) 
(Signed)        Chas.  G.  Halpine, 

A.  A.-Gren.  10th  Army  Corps. 


GEN.  HUNTER  TO  GEN.  NAGLEE. 

Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  Port  Royal,  S.  C,  Feb.  27th,  1863. 

General  Henry  M.  Naglee, 

Commanding  U.  S.  Forces, 

St.  Selena  Island,  S.  C. 

General:  I  have  the  honor  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of 
your  communication,  dated  the  25th  instant,  in  which  you 
recite,  from  a  copy  furnished  to  you  on  the  22d  instant,  the 
following  extract  from  a  letter  written  by  Major-General  Hal- 
leck to  Major-General  Hunter,  on  the  16th  instant: — 

"General  Naglee's  protest  being  disapproved,  the  Secretary 
of  War  has  directed  that  he  be  relieved  from  duty  in  your 
(General  Hunter's)  department." 

And  in  reply  to  your  letter,  I  am  instructed  by  the  major- 
general  commanding  to  transmit  herewith,  a  certified  copy  of  a 


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telegram,  dated  the  18th  instant,  sent  by  Major-General  Hal- 
leck,  General-in-Chief  U.  S.  A.,  through  Colonel  E.  D.  Towns- 
end,  A.  A.  G.  U.  S.  A.,  from  which  you  will  perceive  that  the 
matter  of  relieving  you  or  retaining  you  in  command  of  the 
reinforcements,  is  left  to  General  Hunter's  discretion. 

This  telegram  was  undoubtedly  based  on  General  Hunter's 
emphatic  statement,  made  and  repeated  to  General  Halleck, 
in  every  letter  to  which  the  controversy  regarding  the  status 
and  command  of  the  reinforcements  from  North  Carolina  has 
given  rise,  to  the  effect  that  your  conduct  in  the  matter  had 
been  blameless,  in  General  Hunter's  judgment,  and  that  you 
had  only  done  your  duty  in  bringing  before  these  headquarters, 
on  General  Hunter's  assumption  of  command,  instructions 
from  your  former  commanding  officer,  which  set  up,  on  his 
behalf,  a  claim  to  retain  independent  command  of  the  rein- 
forcements ordered  by  Government  to  General  Hunter's  de- 
partment. 

Such  being  the  facts  of  the  case,  it  must  be  unnecessary  to 
add  that  General  Hunter  uses  the  discretion  given  him  by 
Major-Gen eral  Halleck,  to  retain  your  services  in  this  depart- 
ment ;  and  that  fully  appreciating  your  many  excellent  quali- 
ties as  a  brave,  experienced,  and  efficient  officer,  it  is  his  hope 
that  you  will  have  no  cause  to  regret  your  service  in  this 
department. 

I  have  the  honor  to  be,  general, 

Your  most  obedient  servant, 
(Signed)  CHAS.  G.  HALPINE, 

Ass.  Adjt.-Cf-en.  iOth  Army  Corps. 


GEN.  NAGLEE  TO  CAPT.  JOHNSTON,  A.  A.  G. 

Headquarters  Detachment  18th  Army  Corps, 
St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C,  Feb.  26th,  1863. 

Captain:  I  would  respectfully  request  you  to  furnish  a 
statement  which  shall  state  all  of  the  facts  in  regard  to  the 


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call  made  by  General  Hunter  for  returns,  and  other  informa- 
tion, on  the  10th  and  11th  of  February,  or  at  any  and  all 
other  times  since  we  have  been  in  South  Carolina,  so  far  as 
any  question  may  be  raised  charging  any  "objection  on  my 
part  to  furnish  proper  returns,  or  to  comply  with  any  order  of 
General  Hunter." 

And  also,  whether  within  your  knowledge,  officially,  con- 
fidentially, socially,  or  in  any  manner  whatever,  you  have 
ever  heard  or  seen  any  act  or  word  from  me  that  "  indicated 
or  could  in  any  manner  be  meant  or  construed  to  indicate  a 
want  of  'harmony  of  action  or  cordial  co-operation  in  the  con- 
templated expedition,'"  or  in  any  other  movement  against  the 
enemy. 

Very  respectfully,  etc., 

(Signed)  HENRY  M.  NAGLEE, 

Brig.-G-eneral. 
Capt.  George  H.  Johnston, 

Ass.  Adjt-Gfen. 


CAPT.  JOHNSTON  TO  GEN.  NAGLEE. 

Headquarters  Detachment  18th  Army  CoRrs, 
St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C,  Feb.  27th,  1863. 

General  :  In  answer  to  your  inquiry  of  yesterday,  I  would 
respectfully  state  that,  on  the  10th,  upon  your  opening  the 
request  made  by  General  Hunter,  for  a  return  of  your  division, 
you  immediately  ordered  me  not  only  to  prepare  that  of  your 
division,  but  that  of  the  entire  detachment  from  North  Caro- 
lina, and  the  request  was  refused,  made  by  you  of  General 
Hunter's  aid,  to  permit  you  to  consolidate  the  returns  of  your 
command. 

Although  in  the  midst  of  confusion,  arising  from  the  dis- 
embarkation of  troops,  as  soon  as  General  Hunter's  order  for 
a  review  was  received,  it  was  immediately  promulgated  to  all 
of  the  troops  on  shore. 


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That  requiring  the  names  of  some  officers  to  be  detailed, 
upon  a  commission,  was  answered  within  fifteen  minutes  after 
it  was  received. 

I  know  of  no  order  received  since  we  have  been  in  this  de- 
partment that  was  not  immediately  considered  and  promptly 
disposed  of  after  its  receipt  at  the  office. 

In  regard  to  your  second  inquiry,  I  would  respectfully 
state,  that  since  we  arrived  in  South  Carolina  our  official 
duties  have  brought  us  constantly  together,  and  that  your 
greatest  desire  was  to  bring  about  some  adjustment  of  the 
differences  between  Generals  Hunter  and  Foster ;  frequently 
asserting  that  you  was  indifferent  who  you  served  under,  so 
long  as  you  served  the  country  to  the  best  advantage. 
I  am,  general,  very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 
(Signed)  GEORGE  H.  JOHNSTON, 

Captain  and  A.  D.  C. 
Brig.-Gen.  H.  M.  Naglee, 

Commanding  Detachment  18th  Corps. 


ORDER  TRANSFERRING  AMBULANCES  OF  THE   18th  CORPS  TO 
THE  lOtk  CORPS. 

Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  Port  Royal,  S.  C,  Feb.  25th,  1863. 

Special  Orders ") 
No.  111.       I 

II.  First  Lieut.  Samuel  G.  Sewall,  11th  Mo.  Vols.,  is 
hereby  relieved  from  duty  as  division  ambulance  officer,  and 
will  turn  over  his  ambulances,  horses,  and  other  property  to 
Captain  Chas.  Garretson,  A.  Q.  M.,  Depot  Q.  M.,  Hilton 
Head,  S.  C,  and  report  to  his  regimental  commander  for 
duty. 
By  command  of  Major-Gen.  D.  Hunter. 

ISRAEL  R.  SEELY, 
First  Lieut.  41th  K  Y.  V.,  A.  A.  G. 
Brig.-Gen.  Naglee. 


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Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  Port  Royal,  S.  C,  Feb.  25th,  1863. 

Special  Orders  V 
No.  109.       ) 

I.  Two  regiments  of  infantry  will  be  selected  by  Brig.-Gen. 
Naglee,  commanding  U.  S.  Forces,  St.  Helena  Island,  from 
bis  command,  who  will  proceed  immediately  to  Beaufort,  S.  C, 
and  report  for  duty  to  tbe  commanding  officer  of  tbat  post. 

Tbe  cbief  quartermaster  of  department  will  furnisb  the 
necessary  transportation  for  tbe  prompt  execution  of  tbis 
order. 

II.  Tbe  detacbment  from  Company  C,  1st  U.  S.  Artillery, 
will  also  proceed  to  Beaufort,  S.  C,  where  it  will  be  attached 
to  the  battalion,  1st  Artillery,  there  stationed. 

A  commissioned  officer  will  be  sent  with  it,  who  will  return 
to  St.  Helena  after  the  detachment  shall  have  reported  to 
Captain  Langdon,  1st  U.  S.  Artillery,  at  Beaufort. 
By  command  of  Major-Gen.  Hunter. 

(Signed)  CHAS.  G.  HALPINE, 

Asst.  Adjt.- General  lQth  Army  Corps. 


REPORT  OF  SURGEON  DERBY  TO  GEN.  NAGLEE. 

St.  Helena  Island,  March  3d,  1863. 

General  :  In  compliance  with  your  order,  I  have  tbe  honor 
to  make  the  following  statement  relative  to  the  want  of  fresh 
provisions  at  St.  Helena  Island: — 

On  the  21st  ultimo,  in  conversation  with  Dr.  Crane,  Medical 
Director,  10th  Army  Corps,  I  asked  if  anything  could  be 
done  by  him  to  obtain  fresh  beef  and  bread  for  the  troops  at 
St.  Helena.  He  expressed  surprise  that  they  had  not  been 
furnished,  and  suggested  that  I  should  write  him  a  letter  on 
the  subject.  I  did  so  at  once.  After  reading  the  letter,  he 
said,  "I  will  submit  this  to  General  Hunter  to-day."  It  was 
as  follows: — 


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"St.  Helena  Island,  February  21,  1863. 
"  Sir  :  It  seems  to  be  my  duty  to  inform  you  that  the  troops 
now  quartered  on  this  island  are  exposed  to  disease  from  the 
•want  of  fresh  provisions.  It  is  now  four  weeks  since  they 
were  put  on  shipboard,  and  during  that  period  fresh  beef  and 
bread  have  been  issued  but  once. 

"  The  quartermasters  inform  me  that  they  can  obtain  none. 
Although  no  serious  disease  exists  at  present,  I  think  you  will 
agree  with  me  that  this  fortunate  exemption  cannot  be  ex- 
pected to  continue  under  the  circumstances  to  which  I  have 
the  honor  to  call  your  attention. 

"Very  respectfully  yours, 

"GEORGE  DERBY, 

"Surgeon  23d  Mass.  Vols. 
"  Surgeon  C.  H.  Crane, 

"Medical  Director.'" 

One  ration  of  fresh  beef  was  furnished  to  the  troops  at  St. 
Helena,  February  27th,  1863,  a  second  ration  of  beef  was 
furnished  yesterday.     No  fresh  bread  has  been  issued. 

I  will  also  state,  that  previous  to  February  27th  no  fresh 
provisions  could  be  purchased  from  the  post  commissary  at 
Hilton  Head  by  commissioned  officers  from  St.  Helena,  the 
answer  being,  "We  have  positive  orders  to  sell  nothing  to 
you." 

Very  respectfully  yours, 

(Signed)  GEORGE  DERBY, 

Surgeon  23d  Mass.  Vols. 
Brig. -Gen.  Naglee, 

Comd'g  Detachment  18fA  Army  Corps. 


SECOND  REPORT  OF  SURGEON  DERBY  TO  GEN.  NAGLEE. 

St.  Helena  Island,  March  3d,  18C3. 

General:  On  the  27th  ultimo  I  received  the  following 
order: — 


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(Copy.) 

Headquarters  Detachment  18th  Corps, 
St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C,  February  27th,  1863. 

Special  Orders  *) 
No.  19.        > 

In  the  absence  of  Surgeon  Snelling,  Surgeon  Geo.  Derby, 
23d  Mass.  Vols.,  is  hereby  detailed  as  acting  medical  director 
of  the  detachment  of  the  18th  Army  Corps,  now  in  South 
Carolina. 
By  command  of  Brig. -Gen.  Naglee, 

ComoVg  Detachment  l%th  Army  Corps. 

(Signed)  GEORGE  N.  JOHNSTON, 

Captain  and  A.  A.  Cr. 

Having  been  previously  appointed  by  Dr.  Crane,  Medical 
Director,  10th  Army  Corps,  to  act  as  chief  medical  officer  of  all 
the  troops  on  St.  Helena  Island,  with  the  exception  of  General 
Ferris's  division,  I  called  on  Dr.  Crane  next  morning,  by  your 
consent,  to  explain,  unofficially,  our  new  relations,  and  arrange 
with  him  the  division  of  duties  implied  in  the  above  order, 
which  I  understood  from  you  to  be  based  on  instructions  re- 
ceived from  Washington,  relative  to  the  separation  of  men 
and  materials,  and  the  organization  of  detachment  18th 
Army  Corps,  as  distinct  from  the  10th  Army  Corps,  in 
which  it  had  been  previously  merged.  Dr.  Crane  expressed 
himself  much  surprised  at  such  an  order,  said  that  there 
could  be  but  one  medical  director  in  this  department,  and 
refused  my  request  that  he  would  turn  over  the  medical  sup- 
plies brought  from  Newbern,  which  were  then  and  still  are 
in  possession  of  the  medical  purveyor  at  Hilton  Head.  Dr. 
Crane  desired  me  to  put  in  writing  the  instructions  received 
from  yourself  relative  to  these  supplies,  and  the  necessity  of 
keeping  the  affairs  of  the  two  departments  entirely  distinct. 
This  I  declined  to  do ;  saying  that  our  interview  was  unofficial, 
but  that  no  secret  was  made  of  my  instructions,  and  that  I 
was  perfectly  willing  to  state  them  in  that  manner  to  any  one 
who  might  be  interested  in  the  matter.     He  requested  me  to 


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do  so  to  the  assistant  adjutant-general.  I  consented,  and 
went  with  him  to  headquarters,  and  there  showed  the  order  to 
General  Seymour,  and  explained  to  him,  unofficially,  what  I 
had  previously  done  to  Dr.  Crane. 

Very  respectfully  yours, 

(Signed)  GEORGE  DERBY, 

Surgeon  23d  flfass.  Vols. 
Brig.-Gen.  Naglee, 

ComoVg  Detachment  V&th  Army  Corps. 


ORDER  OF  GEN.  HUNTER  REVOKING  THE  ABOVE  ORDER,  NO.  19, 
OF  GEN.  NAGLEE. 

Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  S.  C,  Feb.  28th,  1863. 

Brig.-Gen.  Henry  M.  Naglee, 

Commanding  U.  S.  Forces, 

St.  Helena  Island. 

General:  Your  Special  Order  No.  19  having  been  officially 
referred  to  these  headquarters,  by  Surgeon  C.  H.  Crane, 
IT.  S.  A.  Medical  Director,  it  is  deemed  proper  to  inform  you 
that  no  corps  organization  is  contemplated  with  respect  to  the 
detachment  of  the  18th  Army  Corps  now  in  this  department, 
and  that  after  the  removal  of  the  detachment  from  St.  Helena 
Island,  you  will,  under  present  orders,  only  command  your 
division,  except  in  so  far  as  military  operations  may  cause 
present  instructions  to  be  modified  by  orders  from  these  head- 
quarters. For  these  reasons  the  organization  of  the  staif  for 
such  separate  corps  organization  is  unnecessary  and  will  be 
revoked;  and  the  organization  of  the  troops  on  St.  Helena 
Island  will  be  as  prescribed  in  Special  Orders  No.  11G  of 
these  headquarters,  current  series. 

By  command  of  Maj.-Gen.  Hunter. 

CHARLES  G.  HALPINE, 

A.  A.  G-.  10th  Army  Corps. 


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ORDER  OF  GEN.  HUNTER  LIMITING  THE  COMMAND  OF  GEN. 
NAGLEE. 

Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  S.  C,  Feb.  28th,  1863. 

Special  Order) 
No.  116.      > 

I.  The  infantry  of  the  detachment  of  the  18th  Army  Corps, 
serving  in  this  department,  will  be  divided  into  two  divisions, 
commanded  by  Generals  Henry  M.  Naglee  and  Orris  S. 
Ferry. 

Brigadier- General  Thos.  G.  Stevenson  is  assigned  to  the 
command  of  a  brigade  in  one  of  these  divisions,  which  brigade 
will  include  the  two  regiments  recently  commanded  by  him, 
if  they  have  not  been  otherwise  disposed  of;  and  Brigadier- 
General  Naglee  is  charged  with  this  assignment. 

II.  All  returns  and  reports  hereafter  will  be  by  divisions, 
and  will  be  forwarded  through  Brigadier- General  Naglee,  as 
commanding  officer  on  St.  Helena.  The  artillery  detach- 
ments and  companies  will  send  their  returns  consolidated, 
through  the  senior  officer  of  the  3d  N.  Y.  Artillery,  present 
on  duty,  and  Brigadier-General  Naglee,  as  a  separate  regi- 
mental organization,  and  that  regiment  will  not  be  attached 
to  any  division. 

By  command  of  Maj.-Gen.  Hunter. 

CHAS.  G.  HALPINE, 
A.  A.  General. 


GEN.  NAGLEE  TO  GEN.  HUNTER. 

Headquarters  Detachment  18th  Corps, 
St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C,  March  1st,  1863. 

Colonel:  I  would  respectfully  acknowledge  the  receipt  of 
Special  Order  No.  116,  and  your  communication,  without 
date,  which  accompanied  it. 

It  is  with  profound  regret  that  I  find  a  determination  to 
open  the  unfortunate  difficulties  that  I  had  sincerely  hoped 


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were  settled  by  the  Secretary  of  War;  a  contrary  course 
diverts  the  necessary  attention  of  all  from  the  important  prep- 
arations absolutely  necessary  for  our  success,  and  may  cause 
delay,  which,  at  this  season  of  the  year,  may  be  most  fatal. 

I  had  hoped  that  "with  its  own  officers  as  assigned  by  its 
proper  chief"  the  organization  of  the  command  from  North 
Carolina  would  not  have  been  disturbed,  and  that  while  cheer- 
fully responding  to  the  "general  orders  and  directions"  of 
General  Hunter,  the  management  of  my  command  in  all  other 
regards  would  have  been  left  as  indicated  by  General  Fos- 
ter, General  Hunter  holding  me  only  responsible  for  the  full 
and  faithful  performance  of  every  duty. 

To  assist  in  the  complicated  and  hazardous  undertaking 
against  Charleston,  the  most  important  of  the  war,  General 
Foster  brought  an  efficient  staff,  who  had  prepared  all  the 
material  necessary  with  the  greatest  possible  care,  and  who 
would  have  gladly  assisted  in  its  expenditure,  but  by  Special 
Orders  No.  97  this  entire  organization  was  broken  up,  and 
the  gentlemen  have  all  returned  to  North  Carolina.* 

In  my  attempt  to  provide  for  their  absence,  and  to  appoint 
the  necessary  officers  to  carry  out  the  purposes  for  which  the 
troops  were  brought  into  this  department,  I  am  met  with  your 
especial  instructions,  which  require  me  to  revoke  an  order 
appointing  a  surgeon  to  act  in  the  absence  of  the  Medical 
Director  brought  here  by  General  Foster,  and  advised  "that 
no  corps  organization  is  contemplated  with  respect  to  the 
detachment  of  the  18th  Army  Corps,  now  in  this  department," 
in  which  we  entirely  agree;  at  the  same  time,  you  certainly 
will  admit  that  I  cannot  conduct  the  business  of  the  detach- 
ment which  I  command  of  12,000  men,  ("the  organization 
of  which,  made  by  the  President,  General  Halleck  directs 
' cannot  be  changed,'")  without  proper  staff  assistance,  and 
this  is  the  only  object  for  which  this  and  other  similar  ap- 
pointments were  made. 

In  regard  to  your  directions,  expressed  in  Special  Orders 
No.  116,  and  to  your  instructions,  without  date,  received  at 
the  same  time,  both  depriving  me  of  the  command  left  by 

*  See  Appendix,  No.  12. 


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General  Foster,  and  limiting  it  hereafter  to  that  of  one  divi- 
sion ;  again  referring  to  the  directions  of  General  Halleck,  I 
will  add  nothing  more  than  simply  to  assure  you  that  no  .trial 
to  which  I  may  now  be  subjected  will  drive  me  from  the  pur- 
pose of  serving  my  country,  for  which  I  have  come  a  long  dis- 
tance, with  great  personal  inconvenience  and  sacrifice. 

Considering  it  my  duty,  as  required  by  the  orders  of  Gen- 
eral Foster,  who  left  me  in  charge  of  all  that  he  brought 
from  North  Carolina,  I  hereby  respectfully  refer  you  to  the 
directions  of  General  Halleck  to  General  Hunter,  indicated 
in  the  letters  of  the  loth  and  16th  ultimo,  which  require  that 
the  "distinct  organization,  both  in  men  and  material,  will  be 
retained,  so  that  the  corps  can  at  any  time  be  returned  entire 
to  its  proper  department,  and  that  Greneral  Hunter  xoill  re- 
scind so  much  of  his  order  as  consolidates  it  with  the  10th 
Corps;"  and  I  would  respectfully  request  that  you  will  ad- 
vise me  of  the  intentions  of  General  Hunter  in  regard  to  the 
above  instructions,  so  far  as  they  refer  to  the  material,  that  I 
may  report  to  General  Foster  in  the  premises,  and  that  I  may 
know  whether  the  material  brought  by  General  Foster  is  sub- 
ject to  his  authority,  represented  by  me. 

As  now  situated,  I  am  compelled  to  report  to  him  that — 

By  the  orders  within  referred  to,  the  organization  of  the 
detachment  of  the  18th  Army  Corps  is  destroyed ;  that — 

The  Quartermaster  of  General  Hunter's  department  holds 
all  the  transportation  of  the  18th  Corps,  and  none  of  it  is  under 
my  orders  or  control,  (except  the  steamer  "Secor;")  that — 

The  Medical  Director  of  General  Hunter's  department 
holds  all  the  medical  stores,  and  refuses  to  turn  them  over  to 
the  Acting  Medical  Director  of  the  detachment,  and  you 
ordered  me  to  revoke  his  appointment;  that — 

The  ^ ommissary  stores  sent  from  North  Carolina,  expressly 
for  the  detachment  of  the  18th  Corps,  are  afloat,  and  I  am 
ordered  not  to  appoint  a  commissary  of  the  detachment  to 
receive  them;  all  of  which  is  in  direct  collision  with  my 
orders  from  General  Foster,  and  do  not  harmonize  with  the 
directions  of  the  President,  that  uthe  organization,  men  and 
material, "  should  not  be  disturbed. 


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Being  second  in  command  only  to  General  Hunter,  and  the 
senior  officer  commanding  the  forces  from  North  Carolina, 
acting  always  under  the  general  orders  and  directions  of 
General  Hunter,  I  had  hoped  that  I  would  have  been  per- 
mitted, without  unnecessary  restraint,  to  so  command  the 
forces  left  under  my  command  as  the  more  effectually  to  in- 
sure the  great  objects  of  the  Government  for  which  we  have 
been  brought  together. 

In  conclusion,  colonel,  assure  the  general  for  me  that  on 
again  entering  my  protest,  I  mean  no  disrespect,  but  am 
guided  only  by  a  solemn  duty,  which  my  position  as  the 
senior  officer  commanding  the  detachment  of  the  18th  Corps, 
and  my  own  self-respect,  demand  of  me.  I  shall  pass  over  in 
silence  the  indications  conveyed  by  the  instructions  and  orders 
referred  to,  and  in  the  necessities  of  our  common  country 
smother  the  feelings  that  under  no  other  circumstances  would 
I  attempt  to  control.  Assure  the  general  that,  regardless  of 
all  feeling  in  the  movements  now  contemplated,  I  will  serve 
in  any  capacity  in  which  he  may  place  me. 
Very  respectfully,  etc., 
(Signed)  HENRY  M.  NAGLEE, 

Brig.-Gren.  Commanding. 
Lieut.-Col.  Chas.  G.  Halpine, 

A.  A.  G-en.  10th  Corps. 

See  Appendix,  Nos.  8  to  31,  inclusive. 


Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  S.  C,  March  5th,  1863. 

Special  Orders  \ 

No.  127.       >  | 

Brigadier-General  Henry  M.  Naglee  having  sent  a  third 
insubordinate  protest,  much  more  objectionable  than  the  first, 
to  these  headquarters,  his  first  having  been  disapproved  by 
the  Honorable  Secretary  of  War,  who  in  consequence  directed 
that  he  be  relieved  from  jduty  in  this  department,  afterward 
leaving  it  optional  with  the  commanding  general  to  relieve  or 


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retain  him,  the  commanding  general,  after  very  mature  re- 
flection, and  with  a  solemn  sense  of  his  responsibilities  to  his 
country,  sincerely  believes  that  the  harmony  of  the  depart- 
ment and  the  best  interests  of  the  service  require  that  Gen- 
eral Naglee  should  be  relieved  from  duty.  The  said  Brig- 
adier-General Henry  M.  Naglee  is  therefore  hereby  relieved 
from  duty  in  the  Department  of  the  South;  and  Brigadier- 
General  Orris  S.  Ferry  will  immediately  assume  command  of 
all  the  U.  S.  forces  on  St.  Helena  Island. 

Brigadier- General  Henry  M.  Naglee  will  proceed  to  the 
City  of  New  York  by  the  first  steamer,  and  report  by  letter 
to  the  Adjutant-General  of  the  army. 

By  command  of  Maj.-Gen.  Hunter. 

CHARLES  G.  HALPINE, 

A.  A.  Gren.  10th  Army  Corps. 


GEN.  FOSTER  TO  GEN.  THOMAS. 

Headquarters  18th  Army  Corps, 
Newbern,  March  2d,  1863. 

Brig.-Gen.  L.  Thomas, 

Adjt.-Cfen.  U.  S.  A., 

Washington,  D.  C. 

General:  In  transmitting  the  correspondence  forwarded 
by  General  Naglee,  at  his  request,  I  consider  it  necessary  to 
add  a  few  statements  of  facts  and  explanations,  in  order  that 
the  main  points  of  this  correspondence  may  be  more  fully 
understood. 

1st.  With  regard  to  my  presence  in  South  Carolina,  at  the 
head  of  a  large  force  of  my  command,  of  which  General 
Hunter,  in  his  letter  to  General  Naglee,  dated  Headquarters 
Department  of  the  South,  Hilton  Head,  S.  C,  February  12th, 
thus  speaks :  "  Knowing  that  General  Foster  had  not  origin- 
ally been  ordered  to  accompany  the  reinforcements  brought 
down  by  you,  but  has  come  here  on,  my  invitation,  as  an  officer 
well  acquainted  with  Charleston  harbor,  and  therefore  likely 

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to  be  of  much  service  by  his  suggestions,  and  the  interest  he 
would  feel  in  the  operation,  I  confess  that  I  regarded  him 
rather  as  a  guest  than  as  a  subordinate,"  etc.,  I  have  to  say 
that  this  understanding  of  my  position  is  not  in  accordance 
with  my  own,  and,  if  I  correctly  understand  my  instructions, 
not  in  accordance  with  the  wishes  of  the  Government. 

It  having  been  decided  to  use  the  force  that  had  been  ac- 
cumulated under  my  command  for  the  purpose  of  reducing 
the  forts  in  an  important  locality  in  this  department ;  first,  in 
aiding  in  an  attack  upon  a  fortified  city  in  South  Carolina, 
General  Hunter,  commanding  the  Department  of  South  Caro- 
lina, then  serving  on  a  court-martial  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
was  sent  for,  and  the  instructions  for  the  guidance  of  General 
Hunter  and  myself  were  given  to  us  verbally  by  General  Hal- 
leck,  in  the  presence  of  the  President  and  Secretary  of  War. 

If  I  understood  them  correctly,  they  were  to  this  effect : 
General  Hunter  to  return  to  South  Carolina,  and  to  have 
command;  I  to  complete  the  organization  of  the  expedition 
from  North  Carolina,  in  all  the  necessaries  for  a  siege,  and 
for  landing  the  force  on  a  hostile  coast,  and  to  sail  with  it  for 
Hilton  Head,  S.  C.  I  was  to  have  immediate  command  of 
the  operating  force,  provided  my  presence  was  not  required 
to  meet  any  threatened  attack  from  the  enemy  in  North 
Carolina ;  at  any  rate,  while  I  could  be  spared  from  my  duties 
in  North  Carolina,  I  was  to  operate  in  the  expected  attack, 
being  in  the  immediate  command  of  the  operating  force  under 
General  Hunter's  general  orders,  as  senior  officer. 

This  arrangement  was  in  accordance  with  General  Hunter's 
expressed  wishes,  uttered  at  this  time.  The  Honorable  Secre- 
tary of  War  also  made  use  of  language,  expressing  his  kind  and 
earnest  desire  that  I  should  be  in  immediate  command  of  the 
expedition,  as  I  possessed  intimate  knowledge  of  the  localities 
and  defenses  of  Charleston,  having  been  taken  prisoner  at 
Fort  Sumter,  April  14,  1861. 

With  this  understanding  I  sailed  from  Beaufort,  on  the  31st 
January,  with  the  last  of  the  fleet  containing  the  force  ar- 
ranged for  the  expedition,. and  which  comprised  some  of  the 
best  troops  of  the  18th  Army  Corps. 


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Arriving  in  Port  Royal  harbor,  I  at  once  reported  to  Gen- 
eral Hunter,  calling  upon  him  officially  for  that  purpose,  with 
my  whole  staff,  and  stated  to  him  that  finding  that  I  could 
leave  North  Carolina  with  safety,  I  had  come  down  to  com- 
mand the  force  at  least  until  they  were  landed.  I  could  not 
make  a  minute  return  of  my  force,  inasmuch  as  it  was  on 
shipboard,  and  not  all  arrived,  but  I  stated  the  aggregate  of 
infantry  and  artillery,  with  the  exact  number  and  calibre  of 
guns,  rounds  of  ammunition,  etc.  Finding  that  some  delays 
would  occur  before  the  commencement  of  the  attack,  I  ac- 
companied General  Hunter  to  Fort  Pulaski,  and  continued 
my  reconnoissance  to  Warsaw  Sound,  Ossibarr  Sound,  and  the 
Ogeeche  River,  General  Hunter  preferring  to  remain  at  Fort 
Pulaski,  but  permitting  his  chief  of  staff,  Brigadier-General 
Seymour,  to  accompany  me.  Returning  to  Fort  Pulaski, 
General  Hunter  came  on  board,  and  all  returned  to  Port 
Royal.  Before  leaving  the  boat,  the  "John  Farron,"  I 
thought  it  best  to  have  some  definite  understanding  with  Gen- 
eral Hunter,  and  therefore  asked  him  if  he  recollected  the 
circumstances  attending  the  meeting  of  the  President,  Secre- 
tary of  War,  and  General  Halleck,  at  the  time  we  received 
our  instructions.  He  answered  in  the  affirmative.  I  then 
said,  do  you  remember  that  the  Secretary  of  War  was  pleased 
to  say  that  he  desired  me  to  have  immediate  command  ?  He 
answered  in  the  affirmative.  I  then  said,  you  were  also 
pleased  to  say  that  you  would  like  to  have  me  come  down, 
and  that  you  would  give  me  the  command  of  the  operating 
force.  He  assented.  I  then  asked  him,  do  you  now  wish  it  ? 
He  replied  in  the  affirmative.  I  then  told  him,  at  once,  that 
I  accepted  the  command  and  responsibility,  and  would  go 
ahead  and  make  all  the  necessary  preparations.  I  added 
that  any  order  he,  General  Hunter,  chose  to  give  me  would  be 
carried  out  with  pleasure. 

This  settled  in  my  own  mind  all  doubt  about  any  miscon- 
ception, and  I  immediately  proceeded  to  reconnoiter  Charles- 
ton and  its  environs,  for  the  purpose  of  choosing  the  point  of 
the  attack. 

Upon  my  return,  I  went  on  shore  to  report  progress  to 


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General  Hunter,  but  could  not  find  him.  As  the  attack  could 
not  be  made  by  the  naval  forces,  with  full  preparation,  before 
two  weeks  time,  I  had  arranged  to  run  up  to  North  Carolina 
for  a  few  days,  to  see  that  everything  was  right,  and  to  bring 
down  more  heavy  guns  and  ammunition  from  Fortress  Monroe. 
Being  obliged  to  leave  early  next  morning,  to  take  advantage 
of  the  tide  and  wind,  I  directed  Generals  Naglee  and  Potter 
(chief  of  staff)  to  go  on  shore  at  early  dawn,  and  make  for 
me  a  full  report  of  progress,  etc. 

Up  to  the  time  of  leaving  South  Carolina,  General  Hunter 
gave  me  no  sign  to  indicate  that  he  misconstrued  my  official 
position,  or  that  he  designed  to  take  any  action  prejudicial  to 
my  command.  I  had  striven  with  the  utmost  sincerity  to  pro- 
mote good  feeling  and  cordial  co-operation,  and  entered  with 
great  zeal  into  the  work  of  preparation  for  the  proposed  attack. 

My  whole  force  shared  my  interest  and  determination,  and 
we  were  fully  prepared  to  land  and  commence  the  attack  on 
the  day  of  the  last  of  the  vessels  entering  the  harbor  of  Port 
Royal.  As  soon  as  I  had  left  the  "  Spaulding,"  as  above 
stated,  the  orders  on  file,  in  the  accompanying  papers,  were 
issued  by  General  Hunter,  terminating  in  the  absorption  of 
the  detachment  of  the  18th  Army  Corps  into  the  10th  Corps, 
and  in  an  order  directing  my  staff  to  quit  the  Department  of 
the  South. 

I  submit  the  above  as  a  simple  statement  of  facts,  with  no 
remarks. 

I  remain,  general,  very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 
(Signed)  J.  G.  FOSTER, 

Major-  G-en.  Commanding. 


GEN.  NAGLEE'S  LETTEE  OF  TRANSMITTAL  OF  THE  WITHIN  TO  THE 
ADJUTANT-GENERAL. 

Headquarters,  Newbern,  N.  C, 
April  30th,  1863. 

Colonel  :  I  would  respectfully  file  with  the  adjutant-gen- 
eral the  accompanying  document,  comprising  fifty-eight  com- 


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munications,  numbered  from  one  (1)  to  fifty-one  (51)  inclusive, 
and  referring  to  matters  at  issue  between  Major-Generals 
Hunter  and  Foster  and  myself. 

I  would  respectfully  request  the  action  of  the  department, 
approving  or  disapproving  of  my  communication  to  General 
Hunter,*  and  also  approving  or  disapproving  Special  Order 
No.  127,  (see  page  32,)  and  attached  hereunto,  ordering  me  to 
New  York. 

General  Halleck,  in  his  letter  to  General  Hunter  of  16th  of 
February,  a  copy  of  which  is  hereunto  attached,  in  the  closing 
paragraph,  is  pleased  to  order,  that  "  General  Naglee's  protest 
to  you,  (General  Hunter,)  being  disapproved,  the  Secretary 
of  War  has  directed  that  he  be  relieved  from  duty  in  your 
(General  Hunter's)  department,"  and  would  respectfully  refer 
to  General  Hunter's  letter  to  General  Naglee,  attached,  in  which 
it  will  be  seen  that  "General  Hunter's  emphatic  statement,  made 
and  repeated  to  General  Halleck  in  every  letter  to  which  the  con- 
troversy regarding  the  status  and  command  of  the  reinforce- 
ments from  North  Carolina  has  given  rise,  to  the  effect,  that  your 
(General  Naglee's)  conduct  in  the  matter  had  been  blameless, 
in  General  Hunter's  judgment,  and  that  you  (General  Naglee) 
had  only  done  your  duty  in  bringing  before  these  headquarters, 
on  General  Hunter's  assumption  of  command,  instructions 
from  your  former  commanding  officer,  which  set  up  in  his  be- 
half a  claim  to  retain  independent  command  of  the  reinforce- 
ments ordered  by  the  Government  to  General  Hunter's  de- 
partment. 

"  Such  being  the  facts  of  the  case,  it  must  be  unnecessary 
to  add  that  General  Hunter  uses  the  discretion  given  him  by 
Major-General  Halleck  to  retain  your  services  in  this  depart- 
ment." It  may  not  be  out  of  place  to  call  attention  to  the 
fact,  that  the  above  was  written  by  General  Hunter  on  the 
27th  of  February,  five  days  after  his  receipt  of  the  orders  of 
the  War  Department,  requiring  him  "  to  rescind  so  much  of 
his  order  as  consolidates  the  forces  of  General  Foster  in  the 
10th  Corps,  and  assuming  command  of  them." 

*  Page  29,  letter  from  Gen.  Naglee  to  Gen.  Hunter. 


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Again,  in  the  letter  of  General  Halleck  to  General  Foster 
of  the  16th  February,  the  former  was  pleased  to  order,  that 
"as  the  course  pursued  by  General  Naglee,  in  objecting  to 
furnish  his  superior  officer  with  proper  returns,  and  the  spirit 
of  his  protest,  are  disapproved,  the  Secretary  of  War  directs 
that  you  relieve  him  from  further  duty  in  the  Department  of 
the  South." 

With  respect  to  the  first  accusation,  I  would  refer  to  the 
letter  of  Captain  George  H.  Johnston,  Assistant  Adjutant- 
General  ;  and  also  to  that  to  Colonel  Halpine,  Assistant  Ad- 
jutant-General, by  which  it  will  be  seen  that  all  returns  and 
information  required  by  General  Hunter  were  immediately 
furnished,  and  without  objection,  by  General  Naglee.  In  re- 
gard to  the  disapproval  of  the  spirit  of  my  protest,  I  feel  fully 
satisfied  that  when  the  subject  can  be  revised,  with  all  the 
information  herein  furnished,  the  department  will  be  led  to  a 
different  conclusion. 

I  would  respectfully  request  to  be  furnished  with  copies  of 
communications  connected  with  the  above,  and  made  by  Gen- 
eral Hunter  directly  to  the  War  Department,  or  with  the  com- 
mander-in-chief, and  which  may  have  influenced  the  decision 
of  the  Secretary  of  War,  that  I  may  be  in  possession  of  all 
the  correspondence  upon  the  subject. 

In  conclusion,  let  me  remind  the  Government,  that  by  con- 
stant labor,  and  under  the  hard  trials  of  the  peninsula,  my  old 
brigade  and  myself  had  become  known  and  identified  with  each 
other,  and  their  services  and  my  services  would  be  much  more 
valuable  to  the  Government  united  than  separated. 
Very  respectfully,  etc., 

HENRY  M.  NAGLEE, 

Brig. -General. 
Col.  E.  D.  Townsend, 

A.  A.  G-en.,  Washington,  D.  C. 


APPENDIX. 


No.  1. 

Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  Port  Royal,  S.C.,  Feb.  9th,  1863. 

Brig. -Gen.  Henry  M.  Naglee, 

Commanding  Division, 
St.  Helena  Island. 
General  :    I  am  instructed  by  the  major-general  commanding 
to  inform  yon  that  having  to  make  up  our  department  return  to- 
morrow, it  will  be  necessary  for  you  to  send  us  a  return  of  the 
forces  under  your  command  at  your  earliest  convenience. 
I  have  the  honor  to  be,  general,  very  respectfully, 
Your  most  obedient  servant, 
(Signed)  CHARLES  G.  HALPINE, 

Asst.  Adjt.-Gen.  10th  Corps. 

No.  2. 

Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  S.  C,  Feb.  10th,  1863. 
Brig. -Gen.  Naglee, 

Commanding  U.  S.  Forces, 

St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C. 
General  :  I  am  instructed  by  the  major-general  commanding 
to  acquaint  yoa  that,  if  the  weather  to-morrow  be  suitable,  he  will 
review  your  command  at  12  w. 

I  have  the  honor  to  be,  general,  very  respectfully, 
Your  most  obedient  servant, 
(Signed)  CHAS.  G.  HALPINE, 

Asst.  Adjt.-Gen.  10th  Army  Corps. 
(39) 


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No.  3. 

Headquarters  Department  of  the  South. 
Hilton  Head,  Port  Royal,  S.  C,  Feb.  10th,  1863. 

Brig. -Gen.  Henry  M.  Naglee, 

Commanding  U.  S.  Forces, 

St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C. 
General  :  The  major-general  commanding  being  about  to  ap- 
point a  board  of  examination  for  such  officers  of  volunteers  as 
may  be  reported  incompetent  or  inefficient,  would  thank  you  to 
name  some  colonel  of  your  command  as  a  fit  member  for  such  a 
board.  As  the  board  will  be  constituted  whenever  your  reply  is 
received,  your  earliest  attention  to  the  matter  is  respectfully  re- 
quested. 

Yery  respectfully,  general, 

Your  most  obedient  servant, 
(Signed)  CHAS.  G.  HALPINE, 

Asst.  Adjt.-Gen.  10th  Army  Corps. 


No.  4. 

Headquarters  Detachment  18th  Army  Corps, 
Harbor  of  Beaufort,  S.  C,  6  o'clock  p.m.,  Feb.  10th,  1863. 

Colonel  :  In  reply  to  your  request,  received  some  fifteen 
minutes  since,  I  would  respectfully  inclose  the  roster  of  the  names 
of  the  colonels  of  my  division,  and  of  others,  so  far  as  they  are 
known  to  me ;  at  the  same  time,  in  the  absence  of  any  order  from 
the  War  Department,  transferring  the  troops  of  the  department 
of  General  Foster  to  that  of  General  Hunter,  or  of  any  order  of 
General  Hunter  assuming  the  command  thereof,  I  would  respect- 
fully protest  against  the  request  of  General  Hunter,  it  being  in 
direct  violation  of  the  written  and  verbal  orders  of  General  Fos- 
ter to  me,  which  I  am  preparing  to  transmit  to  you. 
Yery  respectfully,  etc., 
(Signed)  HENRY  M.  NAGLEE, 

Brigadier-  General. 
Lieut. -Col.  Chas.  G.  Halpine, 

A.  A.  G.  10th  Army  Corps. 


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No.  5. 

Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  Port  Royal,  S.  C,  Feb.  10th,  1863. 
Brig. -Gen.  Naglee, 

Commanding  U.  S.  Forces, 

St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C. 
General :  I  am  instructed  by  the  major-general  commanding 
to  request  that  you  furnish  for  his  information  a  copy  of  the  orders 
under  which  you  embarked  for  this  department ;  together  with  a 
copy  of  General  Foster's  order  turning  over  the  command  to  you 
on  his  leaving  here  this  morning  on  the  steamer  "  Spalding"  for 
the  North. 

I  have  the  honor  to  be,  very  respectfully,  general, 

Your  most  obedient  servant, 
(Signed)  CHARLES  G.  HALPINE, 

Asst.  Adjt.-Gen.  10th  Army  Corps. 

No.  6. 

Headquarters  Detachment  18th  Army  Corps, 
"Secor,"  near  St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C,  7  a.m.,  Feb.  11th,  1863. 

Colonel  :  I  would  respectfully  inclose  a  copy  of  an  order  of 
General  Foster,  commanding  the  18th  Army  Corps,  of  Feb.  7th. 

I  will  send  a  copy  of  the  order  for  disembarkation  as  soon  as  it 
can  be  procured ;  mine  was  destroyed  by  water  when  my  desk  fell 
overboard  at  Hatteras  Inlet. 

Very  respectfully,  etc., 
(Signed)  HENRY  M.  NAGLEE, 

Brig. -Gen.  Commanding  Detachment. 
Lieut.-Col.  Chas.  G.  Halpine, 
A.  A.  G.  10th  Corps. 
(See  page  3.) 

No.  7. 

Headquarters  Detachment  10th  Army  Corps, 
St.  Helena  Island,  Feb.  15th,  1863. 

Colonel  :  I  would  respectfully  call  your  attention  to  Order 
No.  13,  which  would  seem  not  to  include  the  24th  Massachusetts 


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and  10th  Connecticut,  under  General  T.  G.  Stevenson,  and  being 
part  of  his  brigade,  nor  Company  "  C"  of  the  1st  U.  S.  Artillery, 
nor  Companies  "A,"  "B,"  "  C,"  "D,"  "E,"  "  F,"  "I,"  and  "K," 
of  the  3d  N.  Y.  Artillery,  under  the  command  of  Brigadier-Gen- 
eral Ledlie,  chief  of  artillery. 

Your  order  requires  the  "chief  quartermasters  of  divisions  to 
turn  over  all  marine  transportation  brought  down."  The  marine 
transportation  was  brought  clown  by  the  chief  quartermaster  of 
the  18th  Corps,  and  not  by  the  chief  quartermasters  of  divisions. 

The  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores  were  brought  down  by  the 
ordnance  officer  of  the  18th  Corps,  and  the  medical  stores  by  the 
medical  director  of  that  corps. 

The  commissary  stores,  on  the  contrary,  were  placed  upon  the 
several  vessels  and  receipted  for  by  regimental  commissaries  on 
board,  who  were  to  make  the  issues. 

Very  respectfully,  etc., 
(Signed)  HENRY  M.  NAGLEE, 

Brig. -Gen.  Commanding. 
Lieut. -Col.  Chas.  G.  Halpine, 

A.  A.  G.  10th  Army  Corps. 

Indorsements  made  by  General  Seymour. 

Respectfully  returned  to  Brigadier-General  Naglee. — By  Gen- 
eral Orders  No.  13,  Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
Major- General  Hunter  assumes  command  of  the  reinforcements 
from  North  Carolina,  and  no  exception  is  made.  By  that  same 
order,  Brigadier-General  Naglee  is  directed  to  assume  command, 
as  senior  officer,  of  all  the  TJ.  S.  forces  on  St.  Helena  Island,  with 
a  single  exception. 

By  letter  from  these  headquarters,  of  February  14th,  you  are 
clearly  ordered  to  "cause  the  transportation"  referred  to  in  this 
communication  to  be  turned  over  to  Lieutenant-Colonel  Elwell, 
chief  quartermaster  of  this  department. 

You  are  expected  to  have  this  order  carried  out  without  delay, 
and  you  are  further  directed  to  cause  the  ordnance  stores,  in 
charge  of  the  chief  ordnance  officer,  accompanying  these  reinforce- 
ments, and  the  medical  stores  in  charge  of  the  chief  medical  offi- 
cer, to  be  reported  to  the  chief  of  ordnance,  and  to  the  medical 
director  of  this  department.     For  this  purpose,  if  you  have  not 


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so  done,  you  will  assume  command  over  the  chief  officers  of  the 
department  of  staff  herein  named. 
By  order  of  Ma j. -Gen.  Hunter. 
•    '     (Signed)  T.  SEYMOUR, 

Brig. -  General,  Chief  of  Staff. 

No.  8. 

Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  Port  Royal,  S.  C,  Feb.  17th,  1863. 

Brig. -Gen.  H.  M.  Naglee, 

Commanding  U.  S.  Forces, 
St.  Helena  Island. 
General  :  I  am  instructed  by  the  general  commanding,  to  call 
upon  you  to  report  immediately  by  the  bearer  of  this  letter,  by 
whose  authority  the  steamer  "  Cahawba"  left  this  port  for  the 
North  last  week,  said  steamer  having  left  clandestinely  without 
my  knowledge  or  consent. 

If  the  "  Cahawba"  left  by  your  own  authority,  you  will  please 
report  the  fact  by  bearer;  bat  if  by  the  authority,  or  on  the  order 
of  any  other  officer  whatever,  you  will  immediately  place  such 
officer  in  arrest,  and  cause  him  to  report  to  these  headquarters  in 
person. 

I  have  the  honor  to  be,  general, 

Very  respectfully,  etc.  etc., 
(Signed)  CHARLES  G.  HALPINE, 

Asst.  Adjt.-Gen.  10th  Army  Corps. 


No.  9. 

Headquarters  Detachment  10th  Army  Corps, 
St.  Helena  Island,  Feb.  17th,  1863. 

Colonel  :  Before  General  Hunter  assumed  command  of  the 
forces  from  North  Carolina,  about  the  7th  ihst.,  the  captain  of  the 
"  Cahawba,"  on  which  vessel  I  came  from  North  Carolina,  re- 
ported to  me  that  his  vessel  required  overhauling,  which  he  sug- 
gested should  be  done  in  New  York ;  at  the  same  time  assured 
me  that  the  vessel  should  make  the  trip  and  return  to  Hilton  Head 


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with  Government  stores  within  two  weeks,  and  before  she  would 
be  required  for  any  service  here ;  I  reported  this  to  General  Pot- 
ter and  Captain  Slaight,  and  at  the  same  time  I  requested  them  to 
consider  the  propriety  of  discharging  the  "ship  Morton,"  and 
thus  save  to  the  Government  over  a  thousand  dollars  per  day. 

Captain  Slaight  acted  at  once  upon  the  suggestion,  but  the 
"Cahawba"  did  not  get  ready  to  sail  until  the  10th  or  11th  inst., 
and  her  voyage  was  so  far  modified  as  to  require  her  to  touch  at 
Beaufort,  North  Carolina,  with  a  copy  of  your  order,  assuming 
command,  which  was  sent  to  General  Foster. 
"Very  respectfully, 
(Signed)  HENRY  M.  NAGLEE, 

Brig. -Gen.  Commanding. 
Lieut.-Col.  Chas.  G.  Halpine, 

Asst.  Adjt.-Gen.  10th  Army  Corps. 


No.  10. 

Headquarters  Detachment  10th  Army  Corps, 
St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C,  Feb.  17th,  1863. 

Colonel  :  I  would  respectfully  report  that  your  order  in  regard 
to  the  marine  transportation  has  been  complied  with,  and  Cap- 
tain Slaight  went  forthwith  to  turn  over  the  transportation  to 
Colonel  Elwell. 

Very  respectfully,  etc., 
(Signed)  HENRY  M.  NAGLEE, 

Brig.- Gen.  Commanding. 
Col.  Chas.  G.  Halpine, 

A.  A.  G.  10th  Army  Corps. 


No.  U. 

Hilton  Head,  S.  C.Feb.  21st,  1863. 
Lieut. -Col.  J.  J.  Elwell, 

Chief  Quartermaster  10th  A.  C. 

Colonel:  On  the  17th  inst.,  when  at  Beaufort,  S.  C,  whither 
I  had  gone  for  the  purpose  of  landing  my  horses,  (they  having 
been  on  my  boat  over  four  weeks,)  I  received  a  line  from  you, 


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stating  that  it  was  the  order  of  Major- General  Hunter  that  I 
should  come  and  see  him  immediately,  he  wanted  a  personal  in- 
terview with  me;  as  soon  thereupon  as  I  could  complete  the 
arrangements  for  my  horses,  I  came  to  this  place,  and  was  in  the 
act  of  calling  on  the  general,  when  I  was  put  under  arrest ;  I  am 
entirely  in  the  dark  as  to  the  cause.  I  am,  however,  conscious  of 
doing  nothing  intentionally  that  would  in  any  way  incur  the  dis- 
pleasure of  the  general,  and  am  well  persuaded  in  my  own  mind 
that  some  misunderstanding  exists,  which  I  can  easily  explain 
away.  It  has  been  my  greatest  ambition  to  so  deport  myself  in 
my  official  character,  that  I  might  earn  the  favor  and  good  opinion 
of  my  superiors  in  office,  and  I  verily  believe  if  the  commanding 
general  will  honor  me  with  an  interview,  I  can  satisfy  him  that  to 
do  wrong  in  my  office  has  been  farthest  to  the  thought,  and  that 
if  I  have  committed  any  error,  I  am  totally  unconscious  of  it. 
If  I  have  by  any  misapprehension  done  anything  censurable,  or 
rendering  myself  liable  to  arrest,  I  am  not  only  sorry,  but  say 
anxious  to  make  the  amende  honorable. 
I  am,  Colonel,  very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 
(Signed)  JAMES  C.  SLAIGHT, 

Capt.  and  A.  Q.  M. 

No.  12. 

Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  Feb.  19th,  1863. 

Special  Order) 
No.  97.       i 

Two  members  of  General  Foster's  staff,  now  sojourning  within 
the  limits  of  this  department,  having  been  engaged  in  sending 
North  a  steamer  belonging  to  this  command  and  necessary  for  the 
operations  about  to  commence,  such  steamer  being  sent  away 
clandestinely,  and  without  the  knowledge,  consent,  or  order  of  the 
major-general  commanding,  and  it  being  found  that  many,  if  not 
all  the  members  of  General  Foster's  staff,  have  indulged  in  state- 
ments and  remarks  of  a  character  tending  to  create  disaffection, 
insubordination,  and  mutiny,  it  is  hereby  ordered  that  all  the 
members  of  the  staff  of  Major- General  J.  G.  Foster,  command- 
ing the  Department  of  North  Carolina,  now  within  the  limits  of 


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the  Department  of  the  South,  shall  quit  this  department  by  the 
first  steamer  going  North. 

By  command  of  Maj.-Gen.  Hunter. 

(Signed)  CHAS.  G.  HALPINE, 

A.  A.  Gen.  10th  Army  Corps. 

No.  13. 

Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  S.  C,  Feb.  16th,  1863. 

Special  Order  > 
No.  86.       ) 

Brigadier-General  Thos.  G.  Stevenson,  having  stated  publicly 
in  the  custom-house  of  Port  Royal,  Hilton  Head  Island,  that  he 
would  rather  be  beaten  than  co-operate  with  a  certain  class  of 
troops  authorized  by  the  Government,  he  is  hereby  placed  in 
arrest,  and  ordered  to  report  immediately  in  arrest,  to  the  post 
commander,  Hilton  Head,  where  he  will  remain  until  the  pleasure 
of  the  President  on  his  case  can  be  made  known. 

By  command  of  Maj.-Gen.  Hunter. 

(Signed)  CHAS.  G.  HALPINE, 

A.  A.  G.  10th  Army  Corps. 


No.  14. 

Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  S.  C,  Feb.  26th,  1863. 

Special  Order 

No.  112. 

I.  Captain  J.  C.  Slaght,  Assistant  Quartermaster,  is  hereby 
released  from  arrest,  and  will  return  to  the  Department  of  North 
Carolina,  in  accordance  with  general  instructions  already  given. 

By  command  of  Major-Gen.  Hunter. 

(Signed)  ISRAEL  R.  SEELY, 

1st  Lieut.  41th  N.  Y.  V.,  A.  A.  A.-Gen. 


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No.  15. 

Headqtjarteks  Detachment  10th  Army  Corps, 
St.  Helena  Island,  Feb.  12th,  1863. 

Colonel:  I  would  respectfully  request  that  a  ferry-boat  be 
established  to  communicate  from  Hilton  Head  to  St.  Helena 
Island  every  hour. 

Very  respectfully,  etc., 

(Signed)  HENRY  M.  NAGLEE, 

Brig. -Gen.  Commanding. 
Lieut. -Col.  Charles  G.  Halpine, 

A.  A.  G.  iOth  Corps. 

No.  16. 

Headquarters  Detachment  18th  Corps, 
St.  Helena  Island,  March  2d,  1863. 

Colonel:  I  would  respectfully  report  that  three  of  my  regi- 
ments remained  under  arms  for  three  hours  on  Saturday,  waiting 
the  inspecting  officer,  who  could  not  come  for  want  of  transporta- 
tion. 

I  would  respectfully  report,  for  three  days  our  business  has  been 
thrown  into  confusion  in  consequence  of  the  withdrawal  of  the 
ferry-boat,  for  some  reason,  of  which  we  have  had  no  notice,  and 
that  details  waited  from  morning  till  night  expecting  the  boat  to 
arrive. 

Very  respectfully,  etc., 

(Signed)  HENRY  M.  NAGLEE. 

Lieut. -Col.  Halpine, 

A.  A.  G.  10th  Corps. 

Indorsements,  etc.,  etc. 

Respectfully  referred  to  Lieut.-Colonel  Ellwell,  Chief  Quarter- 
master  of  the  Department,  for  his  information  and  immediate 
report. 

By  command  of  Major-Gen.  Hunter. 

(Signed)  CHAS.  G.  HALPINE, 

A.  A.  G.  10th  Army  Corps. 
Department  of  the  South,  March  2d. 


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Indorsement  by  Lieut.-Colonel  Elwell. 

Office  Chief  Quartermaster,  March  3d,  1863. 

I  have  the  honor  to  report  that  the  steamer  "Wyoming"  was 
placed  under  the  orders  of  Captain  Jackson,  Inspector,  on  the 
27th  inst,  in  whose  possession  she  still  remains. 

I  understand  Captain  Jackson's  arrangements  were  somewhat 
interfered  with  by  General  Saxton  for  one  day. 

The  ferry-boat  has  been  placed  at  the  service  of  the  general- 
inspector  of  steamers,  as  being  more  important  duty. 
Very  respectfully,  etc. 
(Signed)  J.  J.  ELWELL, 

Lieut.- Col.  and  A.  Q.  M. 

No.  17. 

Headquarters  Detachment  18th  Corps, 
St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C,  March  2d,  1863. 

Colonel:  I  would  respectfully  report  that  Lieutenant  Myers, 
attached  by  the  Ordnance  Department  to  the  18th  Corps,  and 
attached  by  General  Foster  to  his  staff,  is  still  here.  Am  I  to 
understand,  under  your  Special  Order  No.  116,  and  the  instruc- 
tions without  date  received  with  it,  that  Lieutenant  Myers  is  no 
longer  subject  to  my  authority,  as  contemplated  by  the  order  of 
General  Foster  of  February  7th,  of  which  you  have  a  copy  ? 
Very  respectfully,  etc., 
(Signed)  HENRY  M.  NAGLEE, 

Brig.- General. 
Lieut.  -Col.  Chas.  G.  Halpine, 

A.  A.  G.  10th  Army  Corps. 

Indorsement  made  by  Chas.  G.  Halpine. 

Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
March  2d,  1863. 

Respectfully  returned  for  General  Naglee's  report,  on  the  ques- 
tion within  raised. 

A  copy  of  the  order  of  the  Ordnance  Department,  assigning 
Lieutenant  Myers  to  duty,  should  have  accompanied  this  state- 


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ment.  If  Lieutenant  Myers  be  technically  and  practicably  a  mem- 
ber of  General  Foster's  staff,  he  is  here  in  violation  of  orders.  If 
assigned  by  the  Ordnance  Department  to  duty  with  the  reinforce- 
ments sent  by  the  Government  to  this  department,  he  will  of 
course  remain.. 

The  major-general  commanding  requests  that  you  will  report 
immediately  on  this  case  ;  and  if,  in  your  judgment,  Lieutenant 
Myers  be  here  in  volation  of  orders,  you  will  cause  his  immediate 
arrest,  and  direct  him  to  report  to  these  headquarters. 

By  command  of  Major- Gen.  Hunter. 

(Signed)  CHAS.  G.  HALPINE, 

A.  A.  G.  10th  Army  Corps. 

No.  18. 

St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C,  March  4tli,  I860. 
Captain  Johnston. 

Sir:  In  compliance  with  the  request  that  I  should  make  a 
statement  of  the  facts  with  regard  to  the  circumstances  of  my  re- 
maining here,  I  have  the  honor  to  submit  the  following  : — 

1st.  I  was  ordered  by  General  Ripley,  Chief  of  Ordnance,  to 
report  to  Major-General  Foster,  commanding  18th  Army  Corps, 
for  duty.  I  was  assigned  to  duty  by  him  as  ordnance  officer  to 
that  corps. 

2d.  By  reference  to  the  inclosed  order,  dated  February  22d, 
you  will  perceive  that  I  am  ordered  to  remain  with  the  detach- 
ment of  the  18th  Army  Corps  now  at  this  place. 

3d.  Captain  Todd,  of  the  Ordnance  Department,  desired  that, 
as  I  was  particularly  acquainted  with  the  kind  and  quantity  of 
ordnance  stores  brought  down,  the  manner  of  its  storage,  and  the 
vessels  in  which  it  was  placed,  I  should  remain ;  stating  that  he 
would  have  an  interview  with  General  Seymour,  and  arrange  it  to 
the  satisfaction  of  all  parties. 

I  expressed  not  only  a  willingness,  but  a  strong  desire  to  render 
all  the  assistance  possible  in  organizing  the  ordnance  department 
of  the  expedition,  and  remained. 

(Signed)  JASPER  MYERS, 

Chief  of  Ordnance  18th  Army  Corps. 
Captain  Johnston, 

DetachmH.  A.  A.  G.  18th  Army  Corps. 

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No.  19. 

Port  Royal  Harbor,  February  22d,  1863. 
Special  Orders  ) 
No.  i 

Lieutenant  Myers,  Chief  Ordnance  Officer  of  the  18th  Array- 
Corps,  will  remain  with  the  detachment  of  that  corps,  now  on  St. 
Helena  Island,  and  will  report  for  duty  as,  chief  of  ordnance  to 
Brigadier-General  Naglee,  commanding  detachment. 
By  command  of  Major-Gen.  Foster. 

(Signed)  EDWARD  E.  POTTER, 

Brig. -Gen.,  Chief  of  Staff. 


No.  20. 

Headquarters  Department  of  tiie  South, 
Hilton  Head,  Port  Royal,  S.  C,  February  26th,  1863. 

General:  You  will  please  notify  Captain  Taylor  and  Lieu- 
tenant Fricker,  signal  officers  on  duty  with  the  commander  of  St. 
Helena  Island,  that  they  will  return  to  the  Department  of  North 
Carolina. 

It  is  understood  that  Captain  T.  is  chief  signal  officer  of  that 
department.    • 

This  measure  is  not  to  indicate  the  slightest  dissatisfaction  with 
these  gentlemen,  but  in  order  that  Lieutenant  Taft,  now  chief  of 
that  corps  in  this  department,  may  continue  as  senior  signal 
officer,  so  to  be. 

This  by  direction  of  Major-Gen.  Hunter. 
Yery  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

T.  SEYMOUR, 
Brig. -Gen.,  Chief  of  Staff. 
Brig. -Gen.  Naglee, 

Commanding  St.  Helena  Island. 


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No.  21. 

St.  Helena  Island,  March  1st,  1863. 

General  :  I  respectfully  submit  to  you  the  following  statement : 
On  the  27th  February,  Captain  Taylor,  Chief  Signal  Officer,  com- 
manding the  detachment,  attached  to  the  18th  Army  Corps,  (De- 
partment of  North  Carolina,)  aud  Lieutenant  Fricker,  Signal 
Officer,  were  ordered  out  of  the  Department  of  the  South ;  the 
order  stating  that  the  only  reason  was  the  fact  of  their  outranking 
the  chief  signal  officer  of  the  Department  of  the  South.  Captain 
Taylor,  on  leaving,  left  me  the  senior  officer  in  command  of  the 
detachment,  issued  orders  assigning  the  signal  officers  to  the  dif- 
ferent commanders  of  this  detachment,  18th  Army  Corps,  and 
ordered  me  to  report  to  Lieutenant  Tafft,  Chief  Signal  Officer, 
Department  of  the  South.  On  the  28th  inst.  I  reported  to  Lieu- 
tenant Tafft,  but  he  refused  to  receive  my  report,  as  I  had  no 
written  order,  and  as  he  himself  had  received  no  instructions  on 
the  subject.  I  therefore,  general,  respectfully  report  to  you  for 
orders. 

Lieutenant  Tafft  made  the  assumption  to  me,  that  he  had  the 
right  to  transfer  the  signal  party  attached  to  your  command  to 
the  Department  of  the  South ;  but  I  would  respectfully  represent 
to  you  that  the  signal  officers  of  your  command  constitute  part  of 
a  corps  organized  for  the  Department  of  North  Carolina.  They 
are  now  serving  with  a  detachment  of  troops  from  that  depart- 
ment, and  it  is  their  desire  and  wish,  and  they  deem  it  their  right, 
to  serve  with  this  detachment,  and  not  to  be  turned  over  to  the 
Department  of  the  South,  unless  orders  are  received  to  that  effect 
from  the  chief  signal  officer  of  the  army. 

I  am,  general,  very  respectfully, 

Your  most  obedient  servant, 
(Signed)  CHAS.  C.  T.  KEITH, 

Lieut,  and  Acting  Signal  Officer,  Com'd'g  Signal  Party 
Detachment  18th  Army  Corps. 
Brig. -Gen.  H.  M.  Naglee, 

Commanding  Detachment  18th  Army  Corps. 


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No.  22, 

Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  Port  Royal,  S.  C.,  Feb.  25th,  1863. 

Special  Orders | 
No.  111.       i 

I.  Captain  H.  E.  Lord,  C.  S.,  is  relieved  from  duty  at  Beaufort, 
S.  C,  and  will  turn  over  all  subsistence  stores  and  commissary 
property  to  First  Lieutenant  E.  H.  Brown,  4*1  th  N.  Y.  Vols., 
A.  C.  S.,  Beaufort,  S.  C,  and  report  to  Brigadier-General  H.  M. 
Naglee,  commanding  U.  S.  Yols.,  St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C,  as 
commissary  for  his  division. 

By  command  of  Ma j.  -Gen.  Hunter. 

(Signed) 

1st  Lieut.  41th  N.  Y.  Vols.,  A.  A.  A.  G. 

No.  23. 

Office  of  Chief  Commissary,  D.  S., 
Hilton  Head,  S.  C,  February  28th,  186S. 

Lieut. -Col.  Chas.  G.  Halpine, 

Asst.  Adjt.-Gen.  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  S.  G. 

Colonel  :  I  have  the  honor  to  inclose  herewith  a  copy  of  a 
letter  from  Captain  H.  E.  Lord,  C.  S. ,  who  was  directed  to  report 
to  Brigadier-General  H.  M.  Naglee,  as  commissary  "  for  his  divi- 
sion," by  Special  Orders  No.  Ill,  Headquarters  Department 
South,  February  25th,  1863. 

I  requested  to  have  Captain  Lord  sent  to  General  Naglee's, 
because  I  considered  his  services  necessary,  and  because  the  major- 
general  commanding  had  expressed  his  intentions  to  have  all  mat- 
ters for  that  command  conducted  by  division. 

I  request  that  Brigadier-General  Naglee  be  instructed  to  re- 
ceive Captain  Lord  in  the  capacity  mentioned  in  the  special  order 

above  referred  to. 

I  am,  very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 
(Signed)  M.  R.  MORGAN, 

Lieut.- Col.  and  C.  S.  10th  Army  Corps, 
Chief  Com.  Department  South. 


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Indorsement  made  by  Chas.  G.  Halpine. 

Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  S.  C,  Feb.  28th,  1863. 

Respectfully  referred  to  General  Naglee,  who  will  please  see 
that  the  instructions  contained  in  Special  Order  No..  Ill,  from 
these  headquarters  of  25th  February,  in  the  case  of  Captain  Lord, 
are  carried  out  without  delay. 
By  command  of  Maj.-Gen.  Hunter. 

(Signed)  CHAS.  G.  HALPINE, 

A.  A.  Gen.  10th  Army  Corps. 

Indorsement  made  by  Brig.-Gen.  Naglee. 

After  reading  the  circular  in  relation  to  subsistence  issues  of 
February  16th,  which  required  that  certain  division  commissaries 
should  perform  certain  duties,  I  met  Lieutenant-Colonel  Morgan 
at  Hilton  Head,  and  endeavored  to  convince  him  that  such  an 
officer  was  entirely  unnecessary — that  is,  was  not  recognized  by 
authority  of  law,  or  by  the  Regulations  of  the  Army.  He  re- 
plied that  "  the  regulations  and  the  constitution  were  played  out, 
and  that  on  the  grounds  of  expediency  any  change  could  be 
made. " 

On  the  28th  of  February,  after  the  occurrence  referred  to  him, 
by  Captain  Lord,  going  to  Colonel  Halpine's  office,  I  was  sur- 
prised at  the  report  that  had  been  made,  and  immediately  went  to 
the  office  of  Colonel  Morgan,  who,  at  my  request,  sent  for  Cap- 
tain Lord,  and  required  him  to  state  the  whole  truth  of  what  had 
occurred  between  him  and  I. 

Without  a  word  from  me,  he  added  the  circumstances  and 
additional  language  used  by  me,  and  which,  Colonel  Morgan 
admittted,  entirely  changed  the  character  of  the  complaint  he 
had  made. 

Nothwithstanding  the  above,  Colonel  Morgan  took  no  means 
to  withdraw  the  false  statements  made,  charging  me  with  dis- 
obedience of  orders. 

All  of  which  I  would  respectfully  refer  to  General  Hunter,  and 
request  that  I  may  be  informed  of  his  action  in  the  premises. 
(Signed)  H.  M.  NAGLEE, 

March  2d,  1863.  Brig.  ■  General. 

Headquarters  Detachment  18th  Corps. 


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No.  24. 

Hilton  Head,  S.  C,  Feb.  28th,  1863. 
Colonel:  I  reported  to  Brigadier- General  Naglee  this  after- 
noon, and  .showed  him  my  order  to  report.  He  replied  that  he 
did  not  wish  a  division  commissary,  but  one  to  take  the  place  of 
Colonel  Darr,  commissary  over  all  his  department.  He  was  going 
to  Hilton  Head  and  would  attend  to  it.  I  asked  him  if  I  should 
remain  at  St.  Helena;  he  replied  I  might  remain  there  or  return. 
I  then  told  him  I  would  return  to  Hilton  Head,  and  would  call  at 
Colonel  Morgan's  office,  after  he  had  seen  General  Hunter. 
I  am,  Colonel,  very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 
(Signed)  HENRY  E.  LORD, 

Captain  and  C.  S.  V. 
Lieut.  -Col.  M.  R.  Morgan, 

Chief  Commissary  of  Subsistence, 

Department  of  the  South,  Hilton  Head,  S.  C. 

Indorsement  made  by  Gen.  Naglee  on  the  above. 

Any  man  who  makes  a  statement,  should  tell  the  truth,  the 
whole  truth,  and  nothing  but  the  truth.  Captain  Lord  has  told 
the  truth  ;  but  in  failing  to  tell  the  whole  truth,  is  guilty  of  a 
willful  falsehood. 

I  did  say  what  he  asserts  within ;  but  I  further  ordered  him  to 
prepare  for  his  duties,  which  I  desired  should  be  conducted  in  a 
certain  manner,  and  told  him  to  go  on  with  his  duties  as  required, 
unless  I  procured  a  change  of  the  order,  making  it  to  conform 
with  the  request  I  had  made,  and  as  within  indicated. 

(Signed)  H.  M.  NAGLEE, 

March  2d,  1863.  Brig.- General. 

No.  25. 

Office  Chief  Quartermaster  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  February  24th,  1863. 

Col.  Chas.  G.  Halpine, 

Asst.  Adjt.-General. 
That  there  might  be  no  delay  in  coaling  the  steamers  of  the 
Foster  fleet,  I  asked  a  detail  of  sixty  men,  in  gangs  of  twenty 


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each,  to  be  made  from  the  command  of  General  Naglee,  on  the 
22d  instant.  They  have  not  yet  reported.  The  request  was  sent 
to  you  through  Lieutenant  Seely.  We  are  making  large  details 
constantly  from  our  old  regiments  to  coal  their  (the  Foster)  ves- 
sels, as  well  as  for  our  own,  and  for  other  heavy  work,  both  night 
and  day.  So  hard  do  I  work  the  details,  and  so  often  and  large 
do  I  require  them,  that  General  Terry  complains.  It  is  no  more 
than  right,  I  respectfully  submit,  that  General  Naglee  furnish 
men  to  coal  his  own  transports.  I  am  obliged  also  to  complain 
that  our  tugs  and  steamers  are  constantly  detained  at  the  St. 
Helena  dock  when  employed  in  transporting  the  stores  of  General 
Naglee's  command,  for  the  want  of  an  adequate  force  to  discharge 
and  load  the  vessels. 

I  am  sorry  to  make  this  complaint,  but  I  am  putting  forth  every 
possible  effort  to  coal  and  water  the  vessels,  and  to  have  every- 
thing in  readiness  for  the  expedition.      We  are  making  good 
progress  at  every  point,  except  in  the  cases  referred  to. 
Respectfully,  your  obedient  servant, 

(Signed)  J.  J.  ELWELL, 

Lieut.- Col.  and  Chief  Q.  31. 

Indorsement  on  the  above. 

Respectfully  referred  to  Brigadier-General  Naglee,  who  will 
detail  as  many  men  as  are  required,  say  one  full  company,  to  be 
kept  on  fatigue  duty  at  Seabrook,  until  relieved,  coaling  and 
watering  the  vessels  brought  down  with  General  Naglee's  troops. 

Colonel  Elwell's  suggestions  as  to  details  for  fatigue  duty  to 
load  and  unload  vessels  on  St.  Helena  River,  are  respectfully  sub- 
mitted for  General  Naglee's  consideration  and  action. 

By  command  of  Maj.-Gen.  Hunter. 

(Signed)  CHAS.  G.  HALPINE, 

Feb.  Uth,  1863.  A.  A.  Gen.  10th  Army  Corps. 

Received,  Headquarters  Detachment  18th  Army  Corps,  Feb.  26th,  1863. 

Indorsed  on  the  above. 

Respectfully  referred  to  Quartermaster  Bishop,  who  will  report 
forthwith. 

(Signed)  NAGLEE, 

Feb.  21th,  1863.  Brig.- Gen. 


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No.  26. 

Headquarters  Detachment  18th  Corps, 
St.  Helena  Island,  Feb.  26th,  1863. 

Special  Order  > 
No.  17.       j 
You  will  detail  from  your  command  one  company  (sixty  men) 
to  report  immediately  at  Seabrook,  to  assist  in  coaling  vessels 
belonging  to  this  detachment.     The  company  will  remain  there 
until  further  orders. 

They  will  report,  with   a  copy  of  this  order,  to  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Elwell,  Chief  Quartermaster,  at  Hilton  Head. 
By  command  of  Brig. -Gen.  Naglee. 

GEORGE  H.  JOHNSTON, 

Capt.,  A.  A.  G. 
Acting  Brig. -Gen.  Davis, 

Com'd'g  Second  Brigade,  Naglee's  Division. 

Indorsement  on  the  above. 

Quartermaster's  Office,  Feb.  25th,  1863. 
Captain  :  The  chief  quartermaster  having  referred  the  within 
copy  of  order  to  me,  would  respectfully  state  there  must  be  some 
error  in  regard  to  the  detail  named.  No  detail  from  your  com- 
mand is  required  at  that  point.  It  is  evident  the  detail  for  coal- 
ing the  steamers  of  the  18th  Army,  from  schooners  which  are  now 
in  the  charge  of  the  quartermasters  of  the  two  divisions,  has  in 
some  way  been  misunderstood,  as  meaning  from  Seabrook.  Also 
allow  me,  in  connection  with  this  explanation,  to  say  that  the 
major-general  commanding  is  very  anxious  for  the  coaling  of  the 
transports  that  will  carry  your  corps.  The  same  transports  will 
be  given  you  that  brought  your  corps  to  this  department,  and  the 
coaling  and  watering  of  which  is  now  in  charge  of  the  respective 
quartermasters  of  the  two  divisions,  and  any  impetus,  by  order  or 
otherwise,  given  to  the  quartermasters  for  accomplishing  the  labor 
attending  the  work,  I  would  thank  you  to  give. 
Yery  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

INGHAM  CORYELL, 

Capt.  and  A.  Q.  31. 
Captain  Johnston, 

A.  A.  Gen. 


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No.  27. 

Board  Steamer  Maple  Leaf, 
Off  St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C,  Feb.  24th,  1863. 

Captain  Gr.  H.  Johnston, 

A.  A.  Gen. 
Sir:  As  requested  by  General  Naglee,  I  have  the  honor  to 
report  that  I  have  procured  an  order  from  the  Chief  C.  S.  of 
Hilton  Head  for  beef  cattle,  fresh  bread,  potatoes,  and  onions. 
They  are  all  ready,  (and  have  been  for  two  days,)  to  be  delivered 
except  the  bread,  but  I  have  been  unable  to  procure  transporta- 
tion for  them  from  Hilton  Head  to  St.  Helena  Island. 

Yery  respectfully,  sir, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

W.  C.  FARKINGTEX, 

Gapt.  and  C.  S. 

No.  28. 

Headquarters  Detachment  18th  Army  Corps, 
St.  Helena  Island,  Feb.  28th,  1863. 

Captain:  In  reply  to  your  communication  from  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Elwell,  dated  23d,  24th,  and  26th  inst,  stating  that  the 
required  details  for  vessels  had  not  been  furnished,  also  complain- 
ing of  inefficiency,  or  at  least  neglect  of  duty,  in  detaining  tugs 
and  steamers  at  St.  Helena  Island  docks,  by  not  unloading  them 
promptly,  I  have  the  honor  to  report  that  details  of  men  have, 
been  on  the  dock  constantly  for  days,  and  in  one  case  a  detail  re- 
mained for  three  days  endeavoring  to  report  to  Captain  Coryell, 
as  ordered.  The  only  detail  with  which  I  have  had  any  connec- 
tion was  one  of  sixty  (60)  men  and  two  (2)  officers,  which  I  found 
on  the  dock  here,  at  5  o'clock  p.m.,  26th  inst.,  vainly  attempting 
to  report  to  Colonel  Elwell,  at  Hilton  Head,  according  to  within 
orders  in  possession  of  the  officers. 

Acting  upon  these  orders,  I  took  the  steamer  Oriole,  and  re- 
ported to  Colonel  Elwell  with  the  detail,  at  Hilton  Head,  and 
was  told  that  the  detail  was  not  ordered  by  Colonel  Elwell,  and 
that  the  men  would  not  be  needed.     I  am  satisfied  that  all  details 


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called  for  have  been  made,  and  that  the  fault,  if  fault  there  be,  lies 
entirely  at  the  door  of  the  complainant. 

In  regard  to  delay  in  unloading  tugs,  etc.  at  this  wharf,  I  would 
state  that  I  have  repeatedly  asked  for  a  tug  or  boat  to  transport 
stores  to  this  point,  and  that  I  have  never  yet  been  able  to  obtain 
the  use  of  a  boat  for  an  hour,  and  I  have  never  brought  my  stores 
upon  any  boat  excepting  the  "Secor."  I  have  brought  bread, 
forage,  etc.  upon  the  "  Secor,"  for  want  of  any  other  transporta- 
tion, at  times  when  it  was  very  inconvenient  for  General  Naglee 
to  spare  the  boat  for  that  purpose.  As  an  instance,  Captain 
Holmes,  C.  S.,  drew  twenty  head  of  beeves,  and  drove  them  to 
the  wharf,  at  Hilton,  and  although  repeated  application  was  made 
for  transportation  to  this  point,  it  was  not  furnished,  and  until 
within  the  last  three  or  four  days  no  fresh  beef  has  been  issued  to 
this  command,  simply  for  want  of  transportation  from  Hilton  Head ; 
and  the  charge  that  boats  have  been  delayed  here,  unnecessarily 
by  me,  is  certainly  unfounded  ;  and  as  far  as  I  can  learn,  very  few 
stores  have  been  brought  to  this  point  by  any  boat  but  the  "  Secor." 
Perhaps  it  may  not  be  improper  for  me  to  state  that  the  "  May- 
flower" was  placed  here  as  a  ferry-boat,  at  the  request  of  General 
Naglee,  for  the  accommodation  of  this  command ;  running  hours 
were  fixed  by  General  Naglee,  and  were  altered  by  Colonel  El- 
well,  thereby  creating  confusion,  and,  possibly,  the  very  delay 
complained  of.  The  "  Mayflower"  was  run  as  a  ferry-boat  for  a 
few  days  very  irregularly,  and  was  then  taken  away  altogether, 
since  which  time  no  regular  reliable  ferry  has  run  to  this  point. 
It  is  of  course  impossible  for  details  to  report  to  Colonel  Elwell 
promptly  under  the  present  existing  confused  manner  of  running 
the  ferry-boats.  All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted. 
I  am,  captain, 

Your  most  obedient  servant, 
(Signed)  E.  S.  BISHOP, 

Lieut,  and  A.  A.  Q.  31. ,  Naglee's  Division. 
Captain  Geo.  H.  Johnston, 

A.  A.  G.  Detachment  l§th  Army  Corps. 

Indorsement  made  by  Brig.-Gen.  Naglee. 

In  answer  to  communication  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Elwell,  I 
would  respectfully  refer  to  the  within,  and  will  add  that,  more  than 


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one  week  ago,  I  earnestly  requested  that  the  pile-driver  should 
be  worked  for  two  or  three  days  longer,  which,  as  the  wharf  ap- 
proached deep  water,  would  have  been  of  great  advantage ;  at 
the  same  time  I  made  a  request  that  plank  should  be  furnished  to 
render  serviceable  the  wharf  then  built.  The  use  of  the  pile- 
driver  was  denied,  but  it  was  taken  down,  and  laid  upon  the  wharf 
for  four  days  before  it  was  removed,  and  the  planks  have  never 
been  sent. 

Now,  colonel,  relying  on  your  excellent  judgment  and  nice  dis- 
crimination, I  am  most  happy  to  leave  you  to  judge,  whether  the 
gross  inefficiency,  which  certainly  does  exist,  is  chargeable  to 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Elwell  or  myself. 

(Signed)  H.  M.  X  A  GLEE, 

Brig. -General. 

No.  29. 

Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
Hilton  Head,  S.  C,  March  7th,  1863. 

Special  Orders) 
No.  133.      > 

Brigadier-General  James  H.  Ledlie,  Chief  of  Artillery  to  Major- 
General  Foster,  is  included  in  the  operation  of  Special  Order  No. 
97,  current  series,  from  these  headquarters,  and  is  relieved  from 
duty  in  this  department.  He  will  proceed  to  North  Carolina  by 
the  first  opportunity. 

By  command  of  Major-Gen.  Hunter. 

CHAS.  G.  HALPINE, 

A.  A.  Gen.  10th  Corps. 

No.  30. 

St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C,  March  8th,  1863. 

Colonel  :  Will  you  please  designate  an  hour  when  I  may  call 
with  my  staff  upon  General  Hunter  ? 

Very  respectfully,  etc., 
(Signed)  HENRY  M.  NAGLEE, 

Brig.  -General. 

LlELT.-CoL.  HALPINE, 

A.A.G.  10th  Corps. 


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No.  31. 

Headquarters  Department  of  the  South, 
March  9th,  1863. 

Brig. -Gen.  Henry  M.  Naglee, 

St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C. 
I  regret  to  be  obliged  to  inform  you  that  I  am  instructed  by 
Major-General  Hunter  to  state  that,  in  consequence  of  previous 
engagements,  not  known  to  me  yesterday,  he  will  be  unable  to  re- 
ceive you  and  your  staff,  at  12  m.  to-day,  as  verbally  agreed  between 
Captain  Johnston,  A.  A.  G.,  and  myself. 
I  have  the  honor  to  be,  general, 

Your  most  obedient  servant, 

CHARLES  G.  HALPINE, 

A.  A.  G.  10th  Corps. 


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